[Gmail-Lounge] Re: php questions

On 12/3/05, Kass Lloyd <kasslloyd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Godaddy or any other major web hosting company will not provide you
> mod_rewrite, the ability to change what files are executed as scripts,
> or any other feature like that, never shell access. These are all
> considered "bad" in the security world.
>
> The companies that do provide you tons of access are the tiny
> fly-by-night operations who will give customers that kind of access
> out of ignorance or just to keep customers without regard to the
> system's security or the security of the other customers data.
>
> And quite frankly, mod_rewrite and executing odd types as scripts are
> not neccessary for "normal" websites anyway. One thing that is
> slightly annoying is Godaddy dosn't support the Path Info type of urls
> for tricking like Google into thinking a page isn't dynamic. Google
> dosn't like to index many dynamic pages.. thats the only real concern.

you're way off base here...

I've used several pretty big hosting providers and all of them offered
shell access, mod_rewrite and htaccess, among other things... they
also offer cron jobs, editing of DNS zone files and so on

if the features aren't available, I see that a sign of the
administrators incompetence, not the other way around.

--
So low the sky is all I see
All I want from you is forgive me
So you bring this poor dog in from the rain
Though he just wants right back out again