On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:18 PM, keith smith <
klsmith2020@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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