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You shouldn't use .htaccess files at all. You should put all configuration in the appropriate config file/virtualhost, so all the configuration for a tree of directories can be found in one place. Hunting for .htaccess files littered around a tree, overriding one another, is an anathema.

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Not to mention they're a performance hit.

If you can avoid using them, also remember to tell Apache to stop looking for them using "AllowOverride None"

The only (halfway good) reason you could have for stuffing this in to your .htaccess at all is that you don't have access to your httpd.conf.

It's halfway because any service even remotely viable would at a minimum be hosted on a slicehost or something like that.

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