> I don't need them I have them on a older system were apache 1.3 was
> the standard webserver for openbsd still. So I simply want to
> migrate the content to a system with a new standard webserver httpd.
Okay
But keep in mind that httpd is not Apache and converting complicated
htaccess stuff is not always possible... ;-)
> so this would mean if I have 20 files spread over 10 directories I
> need for all of them a location statement to block or otherwise auth
> befor someone could access it?
:-)
No, of course not
You can do thinks like: location "/.ht*" { block }
and with Lua's pattern matching you can do really cool things.
See patterns(7) and httpd.conf(5)