Re: [cobalt-security] .htaccess on RaQ4's

[Fabrice Prémel <fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>/home/sites had a default of 'AllowOverride None', so no .htaccess 
>or any
>other restrictiveness would ever work... I have not yet verified 
>this on
>other RaQ4's but intend to soon. If this is really the default 
>setting,
>can someone please give a reason for this?

Altrough I'm not convinced it was a good idea to set that by default, 
the main advantage is, IIRC, speed. AllowOverride=yes slows down 
Apache a little bit.

I tend to think that default settings should be secure rather than 
fast, but ...

Fabrice Prémel.
fabrice@xxxxxxxxxx