Re: disabling directives in .htaccess files

On 10 Feb 2012, at 11:46, Aaron Knister wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using mod_perl in a shared hosting environment for some server-side configuration bits. All dynamic content for the users runs through SuEXEC, however this obviously doesn't help in the case of mod_perl so I would like to prevent users from specifying any handlers or other potentially undesirable mod_perl options/directives in their .htaccess files.

Are the Apaches fronted by proxies?

In which case, I'd seriously consider everyone having their own Apaches with a limited
number of processes and an appropriately (automatically generated?) startup.pl for maximum
shared memory in those processes.

Obviously, that number can be tuned depending on the site, but you'd be surprised at how
few most sites need if the responses are quick.

See Stas Bekman's immortal tuning work.