On 03/09/2010 01:05 AM, Philip Wigg wrote: > On 8 March 2010 18:56, Jonathan Zuckerman <j.zuckerman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hey Rich, and anybody else who knows about this, what you've just said >> touches on a question I've been wondering about: a few folks at work have >> always told me that .htaccess was a really slow way to load configuration >> because it needs to be checked per directory, as opposed to the global >> configuration in httpd.conf or whatever that can be cached for the whole >> webserver. >> How true is this really? I've worked on a couple of high-load >> high-availability webservers and we've never made a point of putting general >> site configuration and rewrite rules in the httpd.conf file, using .htaccess >> in the site root instead.. >> Having the ability to modify .htaccess without needing to restart the >> web-servers is nice but certainly not essential, we generally restart the >> webservers anyway when we make changes to the site in order to clear the >> op-code cache. I'm wondering though if we could retire a server and still >> support the same load, or at least see performance increases with a little >> jiggering of the configuration.. >> I guess the way to test this would be to just do it and see the results, >> I'll let you know what I find out, but hearing about actual experiences from >> anybody else would be nice too. >> > There's a useful section in the documentation about this subject:- > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html#when > > -- Phil > > Thank to all of you for your help and links. I'll definitely give an in-depth look into those. wish you all a nice time. -- জয়দীপ বক্সী --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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