André Warnier wrote:
Hi.
Browsing this list, I often get the impression that people use .htaccess
files for just about everything [...]
There is no excuse for the administrator (with .conf file permissions) to
ever, ever, ever deploy .htaccess or set AllowOverride != None. There are
as many guides which state "don't do this" as there are which advocate
abusing .htaccess.
About the only advantage that I can see to .htaccess files, is when the
user has access only to a specific directory on the webserver, and does
not have access to the Apache configuration file.
I'll give you one other valid test/staging scenario; you are trying to
figure out the impact of a particular directive or group of directives,
and wish to rapidly repeat the tests without restarting the server. The
.htaccess file provides a clean mechanism to experiment with many of the
httpd features, provided they are per-request / per-file / per-dir
overrides that you are experimenting with.
Is that an extreme view ?
No :)
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