Increasingly I find myself having to add custom meta data in order to validate my ownership of a site.  Both Yahoo and Google offer webmaster tools with the option of either adding a static html page or including custom meta tags.
Although its easy enough to quickly upload an html file most of my sites would require explicit tweaks to the .htaccess file to allow the plain html to be served.  Without the exception being added the request is caught by the application and a 404 is thrown.

Adding a custom meta tag is therefore the path of least resistance and with a TYPO3 site running TemplaVoila you have two options: Read the rest of this entry »