On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:35 AM, JamesF<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> i would be interested in seeing the gains for this too. only problem
> is you need access to http.conf which might destroy the portability of
> your app if you plan to distribute it. still if you are talking about
> a server the serves 20000 visitors a day maybe the gains are worth it.
> i actually might try this myself for fun.

Sure, it's not for everyone. But I wouldn't go so far as to say it
would "destroy the portability" of a site. It's just an .htaccess
file, after all. And I doubt too many people wantonly change their
server setup with the expectation that everything will work without
any thought put into it. (oh, wait ...)

Anyway, with AllowOverride being on and even a single .htaccess file
present somewhere in the path of a request (many websites that use
them have them at root) the server then has to check every other
directory in that path. Plus, it has to parse the htaccess file.
That's for every request. Putting the same instructions in httpd.conf
will certainly shave *some* request time. That being said, the main
requests with a Cake app go only as deep as webroot/index.php
(although there's alo all the css/js stuff).

I agree that it'd be interesting to run some tests (with ab or
something similar) against a Cake app both with and without .htaccess
files. A little weekend project, perhaps.

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