Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

A short article how to take the pain from your Apache by extracting a generic Rewrite Ruleset from a ‘large’ .htaccess and put it to the server configuration, but keeping it ‘dynamic’.

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The usage of .htaccess files is totally overrated these days, it is often used for things it’s orginally not intended for, like complex RewriteCond and RewriteRule sets.
In this article I will show you how not to use a .htaccess, with some benchmarking and what will happen to a strong webserver when it has to process a large .htaccess file.

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Hello everyone,

my first topic on nrrd.de is about putting a website in maintenance mode, not usuable for anyone except you.