Conditional .htaccess?

[Karma]

Just wondering if there is a way to switch between htaccess rules depending on the url? In this scenario, I want to switch between rules depending if I'm on my localhost or live server?

For ages now I've just been renaming the .htaccess files - but is there an easier way?

[g1smd]

Set the configuration in the localhost site to use a different filename, one other than .htaccess and you can then be sure to never accidentally overwrite a file with the wrong version.

[Karma]

Which has happened.

Could you please be a little more specific, I'm not sure what you mean by 'configuration' - httpd.conf?

[phranque]

you can configure the name of the distributed configuration file per virtual host in httpd.conf using the AccessFileName Directive:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/core.html#accessfilename