Including other file from a .htaccess

Is it possible to include other configuration files from a .htaccess file
under Apache? I have a number of .htaccess files dotted around a server
with an identical chunk of code in each which I would like to be able to
update centrally along with code which varies in each file. For the common
chunk of code I'd like to be able to include it from a single source.

I've looked at the Include directive but this doesn't seem to be availble
in the context of a .htaccess file. Is there another way to do this?

Thanks,
Geoff

* geoff.google.nospam@alphaworks.co.uk (Geoff Soper) wrote:

> I've looked at the Include directive but this doesn't seem to be availble
> in the context of a .htaccess file. Is there another way to do this?

Nope.
An alternative approach could be to generate them from templates locally.

nd

On 20 Jan 2005, Geoff Soper <geoff.google.nospam@alphaworks.co.uk> wrote:
> Is it possible to include other configuration files from a .htaccess file
> under Apache? I have a number of .htaccess files dotted around a server
> with an identical chunk of code in each which I would like to be able to
> update centrally along with code which varies in each file. For the common
> chunk of code I'd like to be able to include it from a single source.
>
> I've looked at the Include directive but this doesn't seem to be availble
> in the context of a .htaccess file. Is there another way to do this?

If it all the same host or virtual host, an .htaccess applies to any
subdirectories (unless overridden farther down). So you may be able to
put some options in .htaccess higher up in your web dir tree. You just
have to be careful about things that might knock out something set higher
up. For example if you want to have a dir with ftp like indexing, it
would be best to use something like Options +Indexing, because without the
plus, it would knock out any other Options set in higher directories.