[UPHPU] .htaccess performance hit

[Wade Preston Shearer]

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

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