diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
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+++ b/.gitattributes
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+* text=auto
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diff --git a/.htaccess b/.htaccess
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+++ b/.htaccess
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+<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
+    <IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
+        Options -MultiViews
+    </IfModule>
+
+    RewriteEngine On
+
+    ##
+    ## Handle resource requests
+    ##
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} combine/.*(.css|.js)
+    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
+
+    ##
+    ## Black list protected files
+    ##
+    RewriteRule themes/.*/(layouts|pages|partials)/.*.htm index.php [L,NC]
+    RewriteRule uploads/protected/.* index.php [L,NC]
+
+    ##
+    ## White listed folders and files
+    ##
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.js
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.ico
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.jpg
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.gif
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.css
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.less
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.scss
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.png
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.swf
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.txt
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.xml
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.xls
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.eot
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.woff
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.ttf
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.svg
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !docs/.*
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !themes/.*
+    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L,NC]
+
+    ##
+    ## Standard routes
+    ##
+    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
+    RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
+
+</IfModule>
diff --git a/artisan b/artisan
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+++ b/artisan
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+#!/usr/bin/env php
+<?php
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Register The Auto Loader
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader
+| for our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll require it
+| into the script here so that we do not have to worry about the
+| loading of any our classes "manually". Feels great to relax.
+|
+*/
+
+require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Turn On The Lights
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| We need to illuminate PHP development, so let's turn on the lights.
+| This bootstrap the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
+| will load up this application so that we can run it and send
+| the responses back to the browser and delight these users.
+|
+*/
+
+$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/start.php';
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Load The Artisan Console Application
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| We'll need to run the script to load and return the Artisan console
+| application. We keep this in its own script so that we will load
+| the console application independent of running commands which
+| will allow us to fire commands from Routes when we want to.
+|
+*/
+
+$app->setRequestForConsoleEnvironment();
+
+$artisan = Illuminate\Console\Application::start($app);
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Run The Artisan Application
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| When we run the console application, the current CLI command will be
+| executed in this console and the response sent back to a terminal
+| or another output device for the developers. Here goes nothing!
+|
+*/
+
+$status = $artisan->run();
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Shutdown The Application
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| Once Artisan has finished running. We will fire off the shutdown events
+| so that any final work may be done by the application before we shut
+| down the process. This is the last thing to happen to the request.
+|
+*/
+
+$app->shutdown();
+
+exit($status);
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diff --git a/index.php b/index.php
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+++ b/index.php
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+<?php
+/**
+ * October - The PHP platform that gets back to basics.
+ *
+ * @package  October
+ * @author   Alexey Bobkov, Samuel Georges
+ */
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Register composer
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| Composer provides a generated class loader for the application.
+|
+*/
+
+require __DIR__.'/bootstrap/autoload.php';
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Load framework
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| This bootstraps the framework and loads up this application.
+|
+*/
+
+$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/start.php';
+
+/*
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+| Process request
+|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+|
+| Execute the request and send the response back to the client.
+|
+*/
+
+$app->run();
diff --git a/phpunit.xml b/phpunit.xml
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+++ b/phpunit.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<phpunit backupGlobals="false"
+         backupStaticAttributes="false"
+         bootstrap="bootstrap/autoload.php"
+         colors="true"
+         convertErrorsToExceptions="true"
+         convertNoticesToExceptions="true"
+         convertWarningsToExceptions="true"
+         processIsolation="false"
+         stopOnFailure="false"
+         syntaxCheck="false"
+>
+    <testsuites>
+        <testsuite name="October CMS Test Suite">
+            <directory>./tests</directory>
+        </testsuite>
+        <testsuite name="October Rain Test Suite">
+            <directory>./vendor/october/rain/tests</directory>
+        </testsuite>
+        <testsuite name="Laravel Test Suite">
+            <directory>./vendor/laravel/framework/tests</directory>
+        </testsuite>
+    </testsuites>
+</phpunit>
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