should you have 1 htaccess file on your site, or several?

**mrthumbs** · 03-13-2005, 03:22 PM

dioesnt matter.. whatever is convenient for you.

**AsylumN** · 03-13-2005, 05:03 PM

Really? it doent matter?

**AsylumN** · 03-13-2005, 10:01 PM

bump for confirmation of what mrthumbs said

**JOKER** · 03-13-2005, 10:12 PM

You mean multiple .htaccess for one site (domain) ?

I see no need for that.

Usually all info goes into one, why would you create more, I doubt
it's even possible.

Maybe explain a little better what you wanna do.

**mistress69** · 03-13-2005, 10:25 PM

I have a couple on my sites

**JOKER** · 03-13-2005, 10:53 PM

Originally posted by mistress69

I have a couple on my sites

In different directories, right?

**Aquarius** · 03-13-2005, 10:56 PM

Originally posted by mistress69

I have a couple on my sites

What sites do you run?

**Pete-KT** · 03-13-2005, 11:01 PM

it doesnt matter

**AsylumN** · 03-14-2005, 08:17 AM

Originally posted by JOKEREMPIRE

You mean multiple .htaccess for one site (domain) ?

I see no need for that.

Usually all info goes into one, why would you create more, I doubt
it's even possible.

Maybe explain a little better what you wanna do.

Well, what I meant is wether it's better to just put one big htaccess file in the root to cover evberything, or to put smaller ones in the directory of each site.

**teksonline** · 03-14-2005, 08:22 AM

the only thing you should be concerned with is mod rewrite or other cpu intensive stuff, in which in that case, the only thing you need to worry about is how you are organizing your content... so that if things are being parsed, it's only parsing whats neccesary and nothing more.

for example

say you want a .html file but its really a .shtml and yours just parsting .html on the fly, then all .html in that directory is being parsed as well, sucking your server CPU, so if you only have one of these files, stick it in a subdirectory so only that one page is being parsed

**StuartD** · 03-14-2005, 08:23 AM

Yeah, if you need specific directories to behave differently than others... for example, having one directory 404 to one sponsor and another directory 404 to another.

otherwise, no real need.

**mortenb** · 03-14-2005, 08:30 AM

Originally posted by teksonline

the only thing you should be concerned with is mod rewrite or other cpu intensive stuff, in which in that case, the only thing you need to worry about is how you are organizing your content... so that if things are being parsed, it's only parsing whats neccesary and nothing more.

for example

say you want a .html file but its really a .shtml and yours just parsting .html on the fly, then all .html in that directory is being parsed as well, sucking your server CPU, so if you only have one of these files, stick it in a subdirectory so only that one page is being parsed

or tell the server to only parse "file_in_question.html" as shtml in the same .htaccess.

It doesn't really matter if they are divided up.. Depends on what you need and how your files are structured.

should you have 1 htaccess file on your site, or several?

should you have 1 htaccess file on your site, or several?

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