Use of .htaccess files

[Kevin Beckford <kb...@bigorbit.com>]

Hello all,	
	I'm a newbie to mod_perl, and I have a question. We have mod_perl on our 
server, but it is a standard out of the box install (Only PerlHandler is 
enabled.) Now, I'd like to use .htaccess files to test some stuff out 
(no dev server either) and I don't want to be constantly restarting the 
server. Am I correct in thinking that since .htaccess files are read by 
the server every request, I do not need to use techniques like 
Apache::StatINC to ensure that the libs get read every request. What 
Perl directives can I not put in .htaccess? I plan on testing this stuff 
in a directory, and if it works, moving it into the main server.