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anthonysomerset
Asked: 2011-03-14 05:53:47 +0800 CST

several hundred redirects, whats the most efficient way of configuring them?

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I am aware that having too many redirects in a .htaccess file can lead to a loss of performance in apache, this leads me to my question is there a faster way to configure redirects in apache particularly if i have several hundred? i am also having to use a cpanel server in this instance.

apache-2.2 redirect 301-redirect

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    Can you put them into httpd.conf instead of a .htaccess file? At least this way, apache only has to parse them once.

    Alternatively, look at Apache's RewriteMap directive in the mod_rewrite module. To quote:

    For plain text and DBM format files the looked-up keys are cached in-core until the mtime of the mapfile changes or the server does a restart. This way you can have map-functions in rules which are used for every request. This is no problem, because the external lookup only happens once!

    In the grand scheme of things, 'several hundred' isn't a lot - I've known .htaccess files to have several thousand redirects - not necessarily wise, but not impossible.

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