Re: [us...@httpd] [DISCUSS] .htaccess for all and everything

2009-03-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
André Warnier wrote: Hi. Browsing this list, I often get the impression that people use .htaccess files for just about everything [...] There is no excuse for the administrator (with .conf file permissions) to ever, ever, ever deploy .htaccess or set AllowOverride != None. There are as many

Re: [us...@httpd] [DISCUSS] .htaccess for all and everything

2009-03-13 Thread Frank Gingras
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 st

[us...@httpd] [DISCUSS] .htaccess for all and everything

2009-03-13 Thread André Warnier
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 instructio