Andre,I agree. So do most of the administrators in #apache on freenode, for that matter.
I've seen speed improvements up to 15% in some extreme cases where htaccess contents were merged into the appropriate sections of the config files.
Aside from the performance issues, most new users stumble upon rewrite rules, and find out to their dismay that they don't match in that context. Even worse, most of them simply loop indefinitely.
I think the main reason why so many new users fall into this trap is that most howto sites promote the use of htaccess without exposing the alternate, proper way. One recent (?) example that comes to my mind is www.askapache.com.
After a couple years of preaching, I don't see this situation improving at all. The percentage of new users that simply disregard those 'tips' is increasing, steadily.
Frank. André Warnier wrote:
Hi.Browsing this list, I often get the impression that people use .htaccess files for just about everything, even probably cases where it would be better (for performance), clearer (to avoid secondary effects) and easier (for control and maintenance) to put functionally equivalent instructions in the main httpd.conf (or vhost.conf) configuration file.As I understand it, enabling .htaccess files has the consequence that Apache first has to go down once the path to the final file, checking each intermediate directory of the path from DocumentRoot/to/the/final/place for associated <Directory> and <Location> containers and access directives therein and combine them, and then finally when it gets to DocumentRoot/to/the/final/place and finds a .htaccess file in it, throw all of that away and restart from the beginning. If the .htaccess are allowed in each intermediate directory, that must generate quite an overhead, as compared to a<Directory /to/the/final/place> Allow from ... Deny from ... </Directory> section.Similarly, having RewriteRules inside of such a .htaccess makes it quite a bit harder to figure out what is going on, independently of the fact that any previous global RewriteRules would also have been applied for nothing.About the only advantage that I can see to .htaccess files, is when the user has access only to a specific directory on the webserver, and does not have access to the Apache configuration file.Is that an extreme view ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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