Intro to Apache - ApacheCon Performance - Symlinks For best security, never permit symlinks, or only use SymLinksIfOwnerMatch For best performance, always allow FollowSymlinks, never use SymLinksIfOwnerMatch Apache has to perform a stat to see if it is a symlink, and them may also have to check the ownership of the link, and compare it to the target. This is slow.
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