On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:46 AM, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I mean, before Apache even gets to the .htaccess file, it has to find the > path to the directory wher the .htaccess file is. And once it finds it, it > would have to re-interpret that same path and change it. > It does not seem to make a lot of sense.. > > Now, if instead of being in the .htaccess file, it was in the httpd.conf, > then it would be another matter. There are complications with using per-directory rewrite, but none of them are really insurmountable. Generally it's no problem to hop around the fileystem even when the rules are in .htaccess. -- Eric Covener covener@xxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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