On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:07 AM, keith smith wrote: > > We have our own servers, if that is what you are referring to. You mean > make the changes to /etc/httpd/config/httpd.conf ? I do seem to recall > reading something about this. I suspect I can create a file and just import > it at the appropriate place. Thanks! I'll need to do some research on > this. > Yes, I even had a spider process for optimization that I used to automatically create/check rewrites against file structure (double checking current links) developed in perl for a really complex web system with monthly marketing releases and campaigns. But you can easily just use sed/awk/grep to check/change via search/replace for you 800 line rewrite file. I have even seen shops that have a project database (Jira Confluence) that includes the rewrite and all current content that requires a rewrite change, from which a new rewrite include file with one rewrite per line can be recreated. Coupled with Change/Management and standard project development, release planning can really be s-hexy. > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --- On *Fri, 10/22/10, Bryan O'Neal >* wrote: > > -l > Subject: Re: performance when using a .htaccess > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Friday, October 22, 2010, 5:45 PM > > > 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 > > wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:18 PM, keith smith > > 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. > >> > >> ------------------------ > >> Keith Smith > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------- > >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Skype: 6022393392 > > ATT: 5037544452 > > GV: 6923073392 > > Phoenix Linux Security Team > > PLUG.PHOENIX.AZ.US > > http://www.it-clowns.com > > *"Great things are not done by impulse but a series of small things > brought > > together." -Van Gogh* > > > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Skype: 6022393392 ATT: 5037544452 GV: 6236883392 http://www.it-clowns.com Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories. -Arthur C. Clark I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. -Heinlein