How to write these .htaccess rules in httpd.conf

Question

I have two htaccess rules that I would like to move to httpd.conf because I hear that's better for performance. I tried just copy-pasting them into httpd.conf but it doesn't use the same syntax I suppose because it didn't work. Can someone please show me what the httpd.conf equivalent of these two .htaccess rules will be:

# DISABLE HOTLINKING
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js)$ - [F]


# PREVENT ALL ACCESS TO THIS FILE
<files admin.php>
 order allow,deny
 deny from all
</files>

Many thanks.

Answer 1

just put them as it is.

.htaccess is exactly httpd.conf for that directory. if you want to restrict to only that directory, just put it inside like this:

<Directory /path/to/your/directory>
# DISABLE HOTLINKING
RewriteEngine on
# Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mysite.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule \.(gif|jpg|jpeg|png|js)$ - [F]


# PREVENT ALL ACCESS TO THIS FILE
<files admin.php>
 order allow,deny
 deny from all
</files>
</Directory>

Answer 2

Putting configuration rules in httpd.conf has no real effect on performance vs. .htaccess unless you have large numbers of them.