Two .Htaccess file important questions…

  • Hello,

    To understand a problem, I would need two confirmations/denegations, please, if you can help with a reply…

    (1) First, the .htaccess file of one’s wordpress blog, is it downloaded by the blog visitors, or not, or is it simply processed by the apache server each time for each visitor ?

    (2) Second, if we have a large htaccess file, 1800 lines of code and 50 kb of size, is it an issue, or does it have zero impact on the blog’s performance ?
    Useful precision, that question concerns my biggest blog, 55 000 daily unique visitors, maybe size matters.

    Thank you VERY much if you can help with a reply, these two simple questions are the key to crucial choices for me ??

    Sabin

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  • First, the .htaccess file of one’s wordpress blog, is it downloaded by the blog visitors, or not, or is it simply processed by the apache server each time for each visitor ?

    if chmod is 644 or lower the file is not downloadable if the server is configured correctly.
    It is processed by each visitor’s browser.

    Second, if we have a large htaccess file, 1800 lines of code and 50 kb of size, is it an issue, or does it have zero impact on the blog’s performance ?
    Useful precision, that question concerns my biggest blog, 55 000 daily unique visitors, maybe size matters.

    wow – that is large.
    It would depend on someone’s connection speed as with all processes that are loaded by the browser. A normal high speed connection shouldn’t have a problem.

    Thread Starter sabinou

    (@sabinou)

    Thank you for the replies, Samboli ! ??

    I’d like to insist to be really sure of myself, the size of the .htaccess file, and the number of visitors… are they NOT likely to influence the blog’s performance ?
    Or to have a negative impact on the server running the blog ?

    Simply said, my visitors would just have, the first time they open my site, a waiting time to load very first the contents of the .htaccess file ?

    And that .htaccess file is loaded only once by the visitors ?

    I know these are many questions, I’m sorry to be so insistent !

    Good day to you,
    Sabin

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