There's been some discussion in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258433
about how we want to do redirects on mozilla.org
There are two main issues:
- putting redirects in .htaccess is more maintainable
(because we can change them through cvs rather than
server config)
- enabling .htaccess files has a performance hit, as Anne
notes in
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=258433#c11
Apache's notes on performance-tuning:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/perf-tuning.html#runtime
Here's a (possibly biased) bit of statistics
http://litespeedtech.com/benchmark.html
It seems that we can limit .htaccess files to only certain
directories by using <Directory> directives, so I suggest doing
that as a compromise. We'd have to consolidate the .htaccess
files a bit, but I'm guessing this will improve performance
while keeping the redirect lists easily maintainable.
Something like
Don't allow in root (use conf files for root redirects)
Allow in subdirectories of root
Don't allow in subdirectories of subdirectories of root
Don't allow in /products
Allow in /products/*
Allow in random other necessary places (like /projects/ui/accessibility).
I'm not familiar with configuring webservers, however, so
what do you all think?
~fantasai
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