performance when using a .htaccess

[Lisa Kachold]

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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