Apache Directives (Optional): for me and joomla not so optional.

Hello,

To make most of the joomla installations working with user friendly urls and other plugins I need to set these apache directives.

<Directory /var/www/webxx/web/>
Options +Includes +FollowSymlinks -Indexes
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
<Files ~ "^\.ht">
Deny from all
</Files>
</Directory>

I found this on the web and when I used it the joomla site works.

- Is there a way to change this for all websites as default?
- Is this setting harmfull or not hacker save?
- Are there other/better solutions.

Thank you in advance..

 

here is conf that I use for joomla:

http://howtoforge.com/forums/showpost.php?p=155251&postcount=19

 

No need to change much on apache2.conf or httpd.conf