[Typo3-debian] Provide a useful apache.conf - sendmail, cgi problems remaining

[Steffen Müller]

Hi.

On 12/01/2004 01:42 AM Michael Stucki wrote:
> 
>>What are the following lines for?
>>
>>
>>>        RewriteRule ^/typo3$ - [L]
>>>        RewriteRule ^/typo3/.*$ - [L]
> 
> 
> The main purpose of the .htaccess file was to enable
> SimulateStaticDocuments. Have a look at how it works, and you'll probably
> know what the above lines are made for:
> 
> (...) 
> 
> Don't know if it's better to specifiy these parts inside of the Apache
> config fire or within an .htaccess file, but I'd say the first options
> looks better to me (read the file and you'll see that there are parts that
> can only be set in the Apache config file, not in .htaccess).
> 

To put mod_rewrite directives into httpd.conf instead of .htaccess is 
mainly to enhance performance:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/htaccess.html#when

-- 
cheers,
Steffen