Does having lots and lots of .htaccess rewrite rules slow down requests?

turgon · 2008-12-13 11:33:23

I know this seems ridiculous, but I wondering if I have a load of rewrite rules in a .htaccess file, say about a hundred, does that slow down the requests hugely? I imagine it would, im just wondering if its true?

13-12-2008 11:33AM

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turgon

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I know this seems ridiculous, but I wondering if I have a load of rewrite rules in a .htaccess file, say about a hundred, does that slow down the requests hugely?

I imagine it would, im just wondering if its true?

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#2 13-12-2008 11:44AM

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I believe it depends where you put them... R
emember that htaccess works in a tree in apache, so if it's in an end-node of the tree it's probably not expensive at all, and if it's in the root node, it may be evaluated at every request.

It would be neat if it did something like enumerate a map for rules at startup, in which case it would have a virtually non-existant performance drag... but I doubt it does

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#3 13-12-2008 12:12PM

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Supposedly it impacts performance - how much however is another question

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