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Originally posted by sheken
Usually, if you have a lot of traffic, it is a very bad idea to AllowOverride directions from your htaccess files. Your Apache will spend too much time checking each directory for htaccess files instead of serving users. It is much better to place such directives directly in the configuration of Apache.
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a) most 'newbies' (that this was aimed at) don't have their own servers
b) many non-newbies with dedicated servers don't even know what their Apache config file is or how to get to it ;)
c) the folks that *do* know how to do it usually have more than one domain on a box and the traffic from each would work best if sent to a different 404 trap, so .htaccess in the root directory of the domain is the best way to go in that case
But other than that yeah I agree with ya
