On Dec 30, 2007 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:19:37 -0500:
By default htaccess files are not allowed in the httpd.conf file.
And you don't even need them, you can just use the same directives in the configuration which has the advantage that Apache doesn't have to probe for this file each time it fulfills a request.
Indeed. This is actually a performance tuning piece for apache, and the first in their 'when not to use' section for htaccess.
Documentation for this is available here to those who are interested -> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/howto/htaccess.html#when