diff --git a/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/checksetup.pl b/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/checksetup.pl
index 6a49f3949be..18b45dda5a4 100755
--- a/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/checksetup.pl
+++ b/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/checksetup.pl
@@ -820,27 +820,12 @@ if ($my_create_htaccess) {
     open HTACCESS, ">.htaccess";
     print HTACCESS <<'END';
 # don't allow people to retrieve non-cgi executable files or our private data
-<FilesMatch ^(.*\.pl|localconfig.*|processmail|runtests.sh)$>
+<FilesMatch ^(.*\.pl|localconfig|processmail|runtests.sh)$>
   deny from all
 </FilesMatch>
 END
     close HTACCESS;
     chmod $fileperm, ".htaccess";
-  } else {
-    # 2002-12-21 Bug 186383
-    open HTACCESS, ".htaccess";
-    my $oldaccess = "";
-    while (<HTACCESS>) {
-      $oldaccess .= $_;
-    }
-    close HTACCESS;
-    if ($oldaccess =~ s/(localconfig)(\|)/$1.*$2/) {
-      print "Repairing .htaccess...\n";
-      open HTACCESS, ">.htaccess";
-      print HTACCESS $oldaccess;
-      close HTACCESS;
-    }
-
   }
   if (!-e "Bugzilla/.htaccess") {
     print "Creating Bugzilla/.htaccess...\n";