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How do you handle deployments when your URL handling is in Apache? Do you deploy the Apache config at the same time as your code?

Seems messy to say the least.

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Way back in my Apache/CGI days the file system was the url handling. No need to touch httpd.conf, just ftp the files..

These days, with Mojolicious behind nginx, it's much cleaner. (But it is good to have used a less abstract setup.)

There's no reason to touch the Apache config to handle URLs. .htaccess files do the job just fine and they're located in the directory structure of your application. Or am I totally misunderstanding what you're talking about?

We put all of our web server config in the web server config - overrides like .htaccess need to be compiled/interpreted/whatever at the beginning of each request so they can add unnecessary latency.

Deployments are still easy. Either symlink the web server config, or (in our case) deploy an RPM which copies the config to The right location. Then it's just a matter of a graceful restart.

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