On 2/22/07, thomas Armstrong <tarmstrong@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi. One colleague claims that if we set "AllowOverride All" within our httpd.conf, the performance of Apache (we use 2.0.59) is damaged. Is this true? Any suggestion is welcome.
As discussed here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/misc/perf-tuning.html#runtime if AllowOverride is set to anything other than "none", then there will be a performance penalty as apache looks for .htaccess files. This would only be noticeable on a site that was stretching its performance to the limits. For example, apache.org runs with AllowOverride enabled and easily transfers hundreds of gigabytes and hundreds of millions of requests per day. And if you are running any kind of dynamic content like php, the processing time for those scripts will overwhelm any time spent looking for .htaccess files. In other words, the performance hit from enabling .htaccess is irrelevant to most sites. But if you are running a site that needs the maximum throughput for requests for small static files, you might consider disabling it and testing the result. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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