[Cialug] apache2 authentication with Windows PDC

Christopher R. Rhodes arreyder at apache.org
Thu Dec 2 13:13:33 CST 2010


On 12/02/10 12:32, Dave Hala Jr wrote:
> 
> Google a bit and see if you can do PDC authentication from within
> a .htaccess file.
> 


Golden rule of Apache HTTPD, never use htaccess if you have access to the httpd.conf.  It's never necessary in this case
and causes a STAT on every http request for every directory in the path to the object being retrieved.  This happens
even when you only have AllowOverride On and do not even have a htaccess to parse.  HTTPD has to check for htaccess (and
parse if there) before handling the request.  Serious overhead!

crr
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chris at ia.gov




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