.htacces measure

[JoostBruining]

Hi, what is a reasonable measure of an .htacces? i have a lot of 301 redirects and wonder when will this turn against me because there are to much 301 redirects?

[wissamdandan]

.htaccess file is evaluated on EVERY server request. So you are talking when it pulls images, CSS, JSS and all elements, the htaccess gets evaluated. ie when you have more than 400 lines in a htaccess file. the server will go through all of them to reply to the request. hence make your site load speed slow.

So you have two options when your htaccess file goes big:

• Make it Smart: you can use rewrite rules and wildcards to minimize 300 lines in a htaccess file to just couple of lines
• move the redirects to be controlled by http.conf on the server level with rewrite map. (reference: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/rewrite/rewritemap.html)

hope this helps

[JoostBruining]

Thanx for the answer but what is a reasonable measure of an .htacces? do know that?

[wissamdandan]

there is no documented number that is considered as a flag. but i keep my htaccess less than 200 lines

[JoostBruining]

okay i try to keep it under 100 lines and was wondering is this to much.. i know to little from apache rewritemap and looking for a dutch translation of the link you send me. so i can try that.

Thanx again!