[UPHPU] .htaccess performance hit

[Sean]

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?
>
>
> wade
I don't think the hit would be too bad, the only reason I heard that 
htaccess files made it a little slower was that before each request it 
has to traverse the folders to find all the parent .htaccess files

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Sean Thayne,
Exit12