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1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 17:12:21 EDT musicman
   are htaccess files completely considered harmful, or just for security stuff? #apacheHTTPD
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 17:38:33 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @musicman Well, they probably slow things a tiny bit. But they enable each site's admin on a shared server to have control over the site's rewriting rules.
      1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 17:59:59 EDT musicman

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         performance isn't the concern. I know some stuff is not supposed to be in htaccess for security reasons.
      2. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 18:01:14 EDT musicman

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         This is what the project says on the matter:
         
         "In general, you should only use .htaccess files when you don't have access to the main server configuration file."
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Monday, 28-Sep-2020 18:07:55 EDT lnxw48a1

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            @musicman Yes, that's why and when they are usually used. Also so that projects (WordPress, Drupal, etc) can ship the file instead of requiring people to edit httpd.conf.