There's an incompatibility with DreamHost's Domains “Extra Web Security” feature and DokuWiki.

With or without “extra web security”, when you use the file tag, you can make a one-liner with PHP/HTML text like so:

<link href="<?php echo DOKU_TPL?>index.php" />

But if you turn on extra web security and split the one-liner into two lines like so:

<link
 href="<?php echo DOKU_TPL?>index.php" />

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