.htaccess in templates buggy?

[svasti]

Hi mates,

I am now coming across the second xh-website where the .htaccess in the templates folder disables the template and the site appears. Fortunately we have the emergency template

The site I am working on now is:
PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.6
rigid rights mamagement: you have to give 777 to practically everything

edit: should have been: the site disappears, actually the template is not used and the site is shown with the emergency template.

[cmb]

I am now coming across the second xh-website where the .htaccess in the templates folder disables the template and the site appears.

The .htaccess isn't supposed to have any effect on processing the template with PHP.

rigid rights mamagement: you have to give 777 to practically everything

That's more likely the problem. I suspect that is_readable($pth['file']['template']) would return false. You can verify this at the end of cms.php just before $temp = fopen($pth['file']['template'], 'r');