Re: why php echo does not show up in HTML? [message #181698 is a reply to message #181688] |
Sat, 25 May 2013 13:22 |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 5/24/2013 11:59 PM, Gordon Burditt wrote:
>> That doesn't mean you can't change the configuration for your portion of it.
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>>> I can't call my hosting company talk to tech support and tell to
>>> please edit the server config files for me and see if this will work.
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>> No, that's true, you can't. Fortunately, you don't need to. You should be able to do everything
>> you need in the .htaccess file in your web root directory. You possibly will need to add a
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> This presumes that the hosting company has not put the directive
> "AllowOverride None" in their configuration for your site. (For
> Apache 2.3.9 and later, this is the default). It speeds up serving
> web pages slightly by never looking for .htaccess files at all.
> Therefore, you can't do redirects in .htaccess . If you discover
> that your hosting company does this and they won't budge, find
> another hosting company.
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> I recall trying to help some friends dealing with a hosting company
> paranoid about security, at least for cheap/free accounts. One
> official way to close your account was to upload a .htaccess file
> (containing anything at all, or nothing at all). Your account would
> be gone within an hour. So would all the other accounts using the
> same payment account. And no, you couldn't get it back, except
> perhaps by using a fake name and different domain name and payment
> account. This was long ago and they offered essentially NO active
> content or PHP except a hit counter CGI they provided.
>
> You *CAN* do a redirect with pure HTML (done in the user's browser):
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> <HEAD>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="1;URL=http://mysite.com/path/foobar.php">
> </HEAD>
>
Yes, but any hosting company which does that won't be in business for
long. For instance, most CMS's depend on being able to use mod_rewrite.
Doing it in HTML requires maintaining a whole set of additional files.
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