performance when using a .htaccess

Bryan O'Neal Bryan.ONeal at TheONealAndAssociates.com
Fri Oct 22 17:45:45 MST 2010


Just as a follow up. Do your end users control their own .htaccess
files? If not why not use conf files and disable htaccess?

On 10/22/10, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold at obnosis.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:18 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question about performance when using a .htaccess file.  I have
>> read that having multiple .htaccess files can slow Apache.  Meaning a
>> .htaccess file in each directory.
>>
>> We have moved a ton of content, upwards of 900 pages.  About 600 of those
>> have been moved from our blog which was located in the directory /blog.
>> It
>> was suggested to break the .htaccess into files that reflect the content
>> moved.  For example put a .htaccess file in the /blog directory that
>> reflects all the content from the blog instead of one big .htaccess file
>> in
>> the doc root directory that would contain 900 redirects.
>>
>
> Well, that's better than FollowSymlinks?
>
> The reason that multiple .htaccess file management can be slow and difficult
> is that Apache2 searches each TREE and .htaccess files are inherited from
> hierarchical directories.
>
> A rewrite might actually be able to do exactly what you need?  have you
> considered that?  Rewrite overhead is not huge, especially if you are
> caching for this /blog URL?
>
>
>>
>> Thank you for your feedback.
>>
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>> Keith Smith
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