.httacess Question.

[Todd Slater]

On 10/9/06, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/10/06, Patrick Newberry <PNewberry at habitat.org> wrote:
> >
> > I have two questions, one is it appears to be some delay in when I ftp
> > the .httaccess to the web site and when it takes effect. Is that true?
> > If so is there some idea of what that delay might be.
>
> I've never used apache (which I presume you're using) but do you not need to
> send a kill signal to the daemon to tell it to re-read its configuration
> file? Could be completely wrong however, and the .htaccess file is read for
> every page-serve, but I'd suspect the overhead would be far too high for
> that to be the case.

You don't need to kill the daemon for apache to reload .htaccess
files. If you use the <Directory> context in a main httpd.conf file,
however, you do need to reload apache.

Todd