diff --git a/lib/util.php b/lib/util.php
index 1eeb70aca695ebdea1acb1629794152f7048db4a..58d6ab1be78fa58fdd89f45cbcd880fda6f3ecd9 100644
--- a/lib/util.php
+++ b/lib/util.php
@@ -417,5 +417,46 @@ class OC_Util {
 		else $value = htmlentities($value, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'); //Specify encoding for PHP<5.4
 		return $value;
 	}
+
+
+
+
+
+        /**
+	 * Check if the htaccess file is working buy creating a test file in the data directory and trying to access via http
+	*/
+        public static function ishtaccessworking() {
+	
+		// testdata
+		$filename='/htaccesstest.txt';
+		$testcontent='testcontent';
+
+		// creating a test file
+                $testfile = OC_Config::getValue( "datadirectory", OC::$SERVERROOT."/data" ).'/'.$filename;
+                $fp = @fopen($testfile, 'w');
+                @fwrite($fp, $testcontent);
+                @fclose($fp);
+	
+		// accessing the file via http
+                $url = OC_Helper::serverProtocol(). '://'  . OC_Helper::serverHost() . OC::$WEBROOT.'/data'.$filename;
+                $fp = @fopen($url, 'r');
+                $content=@fread($fp, 2048);
+                @fclose($fp);
+	
+		// cleanup
+		@unlink($testfile);
+	
+		// does it work ?
+		if($content==$testcontent) {
+			return(false);
+		}else{
+			return(true);
+		}
+	
+ 	}
+	
+	
+
+
 }
 
diff --git a/settings/admin.php b/settings/admin.php
index 88aae5bdb6015425133d8fd14793f391f7b2b317..a6928bf82de5fe368630495f4833f2febbe478a9 100644
--- a/settings/admin.php
+++ b/settings/admin.php
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ OC_App::setActiveNavigationEntry( "admin" );
 
 $tmpl = new OC_Template( 'settings', 'admin', 'user');
 $forms=OC_App::getForms('admin');
+$htaccessworking=OC_Util::ishtaccessworking();
 
 $entries=OC_Log_Owncloud::getEntries(3);
 function compareEntries($a,$b){
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ usort($entries, 'compareEntries');
 
 $tmpl->assign('loglevel',OC_Config::getValue( "loglevel", 2 ));
 $tmpl->assign('entries',OC_Util::sanitizeHTML($entries));
+$tmpl->assign('htaccessworking',$htaccessworking);
 $tmpl->assign('forms',array());
 foreach($forms as $form){
 	$tmpl->append('forms',$form);
diff --git a/settings/css/settings.css b/settings/css/settings.css
index 6e9d2432e49521bf726feea6b17b661c7252fb44..f45fa9bc0199ad652c402dd2e8d06457a31eabff 100644
--- a/settings/css/settings.css
+++ b/settings/css/settings.css
@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@ li.active { color:#000; }
 small.externalapp { color:#FFF; background-color:#BBB; font-weight:bold; font-size:6pt; padding:4px; border-radius: 4px;}
 span.version { margin-left:3em; color:#ddd; }
 
-/* LOF */
+/* LOG */
 #log { white-space:normal; }
 /* Don't show blank images */
-img[src=""] { display:none}
\ No newline at end of file
+img[src=""] { display:none}
+
+/* ADMIN */
+span.securitywarning {color:#C33; font-weight:bold; }
+
diff --git a/settings/templates/admin.php b/settings/templates/admin.php
index d167f2780ef310e335cf0c45b2e584f728249cc4..9f839cf74916567dc83c1a744ec803f6ae88172e 100644
--- a/settings/templates/admin.php
+++ b/settings/templates/admin.php
@@ -4,8 +4,21 @@
  * See the COPYING-README file.
  */
 $levels=array('Debug','Info','Warning','Error','Fatal');
+	
+if(!$_['htaccessworking']) {
+	?>
+	<fieldset class="personalblock">
+		<legend><strong><?php echo $l->t('Security Warning');?></strong></legend>
+	
+		<span class="securitywarning">Your data directory and your files are probably accessible from the internet. The .htaccess file that ownCloud provides is not working. We strongly suggest that you configure your webserver in a way that the data directory is no longer accessible or you move the data directory outside the webserver document root.</span>
+		
+	</fieldset>	
+	<?php	
+}
 ?>
 
+
+
 <?php foreach($_['forms'] as $form){
 	echo $form;
 };?>