Using a shared server

What rights do you normally have

[sfatih]

Hi, this might sound too trivial but I never set up a php site other than my personal computer. If I buy some place on a shared web server, what rights on the site do they normally give? Can I modify the php.ini, .htaccess and httpd.conf files or are these files shared by all the sites on the shared server and only the administrators can modify them? Thanks for any help or ideas.

[jdMorgan]

sfatih,

You will usually have access to .htaccess, though some hosts will not allow the use of mod_rewrite or other modules that they perceive as costing them too much time/money in "customer support." You will almost never have access to httpd.conf, since this is where the "sharing" of the host is set up. I'm not sure about php.ini, but if that is typically done at the server level, then you won't have access to it, either.

Jim

[sfatih]

Thanks a lot, I will check with a few different hosts, that should give the best idea :)