[UPHPU] .htaccess performance hit

[thebigdog]

Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> I have been told that using .htaccess files (specifically, mod rewrites 
> in .htaccess files) can have a significant negative impact on 
> performance. Is this .htaccess use period or just heavy .htaccess use? 
> Meaning, is there a difference between one rewrite in an .htaccess file 
> over two hundred? Note that I am not asking about the effect on 
> performance with rewrites in general, just the use of .htaccess files. 
> Will reducing the contents of an .htaccess file help or will I have to 
> disable .htaccess use altogether to see any change? It seems to me that 
> you would have to disabled .htaccess use entirely in order to see a 
> performance increase since Apache would have to still traverse the web 
> tree checking for .htaccess files even if they don't exist or even if 
> they are light. Will moving all of my rewrites into httpd.conf and 
> leaving .htaccess use enabled so that I can toss a quite rule in once in 
> a while without having to restart Apache negate the performance 
> improvement that I am seeking?

Overall use of the .htaccess file is a performance hit when compared to the 
configuration file.

Here is a great read for you:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/howto/htaccess.html#when
- or -
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html#when


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thebigdog