Help! can .htaccess file turn on "file_uploads"?

[stylin99]

I'm new here but this site seems full of knowledge.
I recently moved my site to a new server host, and we have a vbulletin messageboard. We can not upload attachments or avatars because it says "file_uploads is not turned on" for the server.

The Blue Domino server admins (the great geniouses that they are) tell us that we have to create an .htaccess file to turn on the file uploads for our site. MY site admin says this can't be done with an .htaccess file.

Does anyone know how to write this file for turning on file uploads for our forums?

Please help, I'm getting desperate and very frustrated. Thanks.

SERVER TYPE: Linux; PHP v4.1.2; Apache v1.3.27 FILE_UPLOADS Disabled

[edited by: stylin99 at 6:12 pm (utc) on May 13, 2004]

[gergoe]

how you are uploading the file? by a form on a html page using the POST method?

[stylin99]

No this is thru a Vbulletin messageboard. When you click to attach pictures, or even upload an avatar you get the message I posted above.

This is also listed in the forums admin panel:
Apache v1.3.27 FILE_UPLOADS Disabled

[gergoe]

that's the interface, but i was interrested in the way how it is done; anyway, i think the problem you have is much more related to the php, than to the apache. take a loook in the php documentation [php.net] for more details on the FILE_UPLOAD configuration option. i think your provider turned this off, but you can check this out with the phpinfo().