.httacess Question.

[Joel Goguen]

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Steve Flynn wrote:
> I've never used apache (which I presume you're using) but do you not
> need to send a kill signal to the daemon to tell it to re-read its
> configuration file? Could be completely wrong however, and the .htaccess
> file is read for every page-serve, but I'd suspect the overhead would be
> far too high for that to be the case.

Yes, you send Apache SIGHUP (or restart it) after changing its config
file (httpd.conf).  But changing .htaccess doesn't require SIGHUP or
restart or anything else.  Those changes are immediate.  I'm pretty sure
.htaccess is indeed read on every page request, just like your browser
sends your authentication tokens across every time you access a site
requiring Basic or Digest HTTP authentication.


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