[TYPO3-core] RFC #17175: t3lib_compressor should write .htaccess

[Steffen Gebert]

Hi Christian,

I discussed this change with Ernesto.

There have been _.htacess files since long time in subdirectories of typo3/.
However, almost nobody knew it/used them, as they also have to be 
renamed every time, when the source was replaced.

One day, the decision was made to just include them as .htaccess, until 
now, there are 5 in the core.
However, compressor writes to typo3temp/compressor/, where we can't 
include a .htaccess that easy.

> ..htaccess is specific to apache. TYPO3 runs with many more webservers
> (apache, IIS, nginx, lighthttpd, ...).
Other web servers will silently ignore them AFAIK (otherwise they would 
already fail..). If sb. is using sth. else than Apache or IIS, he 
probably cares about performance and add own rules, specific to the web 
server.
In case of sb. does not want these rules, the file can also be created 
empty/with other content and will be kept.

 > This is a problem on admin level, but not for TYPO3 itself.
See argumentation above - many admins don't care but have a bitch about 
TYPO3's performance.

 > We could add an example to _.htaccess to give
 > admins an information on how it should be done if using apache, but
 > not more.
Yes, that was my first intention, too. Just adding it to the _.htaccess.
Ernesto's counter-argument was that's it then used also for FE. However 
IMHO this wouldn't cause problems, but also improve FE performance.

> Especially, we shouldn't write .htaccess files during runtime, it's a
> setup issue, not runtime.
I'm fine with both ways, as long as it's automatically there or easy to 
spot for admins that there are pretty useful options, which could just 
be enabled.

Kind regards
Steffen

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Steffen Gebert
TYPO3 Core Team Member

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