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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 06:49:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Bowen <rbowen@rcbowen.com>
To: Apache Users <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: Re: htaccess question
In-Reply-To: <IOEHLJLGFAHLKDIGBJOHIEGLDEAA.andy.kriger@verizon.net>
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Andy Kriger wrote:

> I am using Apache on a shared host, so all of my configuration
> customizations are in .htaccess. It seems like there are things that can be
> done at the server htaccess level or in a PHP file (or JSP or Perl or
> whatever your scripting lang of choice). For example, mod_rewrite can
> redirect to the root and then you can do your processing from there in PHP
> or you can do it all in htaccess.
>
> What I'm wondering is this (being relatively new to the under-the-hood stuff
> of webservers) - in your experience, which is better for performance,
> security, and ease of maintanance?

The questions of performance and security, with respect to .htaccess
files, is discussed some in the new .htaccess tutorial, at
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html

-- 
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We too will go to sea in a Sieve -
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!"
 (The Jumblies, by Edward Lear)


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