Maximum size of the htaccess file?

[turbohost]

Hi Guys,

I've got to add a lot of 301 redirects to my htaccess file. Is there a limit in size of the htaccess file? I've got to add about 200,000 redirects and it seems that changing the htaccess file is my only option :->

Turbo

[jdMorgan]

turbohost,

The main issue wil be performance, not size. Possible solutions:

Take advantage of any "patterns" in the redirects to use one directive to accomplish multiple redirects.

Put some redirects in subdirectory .htaccess files if possible, to limit their execution scope.

See RedirectMatch in Apache mod_alias, and RewriteRule in mod_rewrite for examples of how to use regular expressions and back-references to accomplish multiple redirects with one directive.

200,000 redirects? Sheesh! :o

Jim