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benchmarking .htaccess performance
27 Aug 2006
Categories:
- apache
- code
- php
One of the common tips to increasing Apache performance is to turn off the per-directory configuration files (aka .htaccess files) and merge them all into your main Apache server configuration file (httpd.conf). Jeremy raised an interesting question about when the performance loss caused by using many htaccess files is offset by the ease of maintenance. He's arguing - and I agree - that it makes sense to keep the configuration locally inside .htaccess files, despite the performance loss as these are easier to maintain....

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Processing mod_security audit logs with logwatch
26 Aug 2006
Categories:
- apache
- code
- mod_security
- perl
This is a quick and dirty LogWatch script to process mod_security audit logs. I had a google, and couldn't find any released scripts, so here's my one.

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