mod rewrite not allowed - help

Hi everybody, I'm pretty much a newbie, so excuse me for the stupidity of
this question.

My hosting company is telling me that they do not allow php mod_rewrite for
unspecified security reasons.

I would like to rewrite my urls for obvious SEO reasons.

How can I do it in a different way?

Thanks and Ciao from Italy
Fabrizio

It seems unlikely but if you're on an Apache server you may be able to
do mod_rewrite via an .htaccess file. I say it's unlikely because your
host have likely disabled this.

Move to another hosting company ASAP. Don't waste your time with them.


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"Aik" <XXXelevenXXX (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi everybody, I'm pretty much a newbie, so excuse me for the stupidity
of this question.

My hosting company is telling me that they do not allow php
mod_rewrite for unspecified security reasons.

Translation: we have no clue what you want, hence it's unsecure.

I would like to rewrite my urls for obvious SEO reasons.

How can I do it in a different way?

Dump the shitheads. There are plenty of hosting companies out there who do
have a clue.

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On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 17:38:21 +0100, "Aik" <XXXelevenXXX (AT) hotmail (DOT) com>
wrote:

Hi everybody, I'm pretty much a newbie, so excuse me for the stupidity of
this question.

My hosting company is telling me that they do not allow php mod_rewrite for
unspecified security reasons.

I would like to rewrite my urls for obvious SEO reasons.

How can I do it in a different way?

Thanks and Ciao from Italy
Fabrizio

Change hosts.

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On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 17:38:21 +0100, Aik <XXXelevenXXX (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hi everybody, I'm pretty much a newbie, so excuse me for the stupidity of
this question.

My hosting company is telling me that they do not allow php mod_rewrite
for
unspecified security reasons.

I thought i have already met the most stupid hosting company in my life.
It was 3 years ago and they was proposing to me use php instead of PERL ()
for my site, wich was already written with PERL - and also - for security
reasons. I was laughing for a long time. But after reading your post i
understood - human stupidity is eternal thing.



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a major work around is to have your 404 page disect the url string and
populate a query with it to pull up the apropriate page - it takes a
little longer for your pages to display but works well!

mark

On 3 Dec 2005 12:50:15 -0800, <markrush (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

a major work around is to have your 404 page disect the url string and
populate a query with it to pull up the apropriate page - it takes a
little longer for your pages to display but works well!

mark

Lost?


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Antipodean Bucket Farmer <usenet2005 (AT) THE-DOMAIN-IN (DOT) SIG> wrote:

In article
1133631959.765961.147450 (AT) g49g20...oglegroups.com
, gamewyrd (AT) gmail (DOT) com says...
It seems unlikely but if you're on an Apache server you may be able to
do mod_rewrite via an .htaccess file.


I might be wrong, since I have never used it, but my
impression was that, starting up mod_rewrite also
requires that the server must be rebooted(?)

Not for .htaccess

Also if mod_rewrite is not loaded in the httpd.conf, or you're not allowed
to turn the RewriteEngine On in .htaccess you really should look for
another hosting company ;-)

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On 4 Dec 2005 02:05:32 GMT, John Bokma <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote:

Antipodean Bucket Farmer <usenet2005 (AT) THE-DOMAIN-IN (DOT) SIG> wrote:

In article
1133631959.765961.147450 (AT) g49g20...oglegroups.com
, gamewyrd (AT) gmail (DOT) com says...
It seems unlikely but if you're on an Apache server you may be able to
do mod_rewrite via an .htaccess file.


I might be wrong, since I have never used it, but my
impression was that, starting up mod_rewrite also
requires that the server must be rebooted(?)

Not for .htaccess

Also if mod_rewrite is not loaded in the httpd.conf, or you're not allowed
to turn the RewriteEngine On in .htaccess you really should look for
another hosting company ;-)

As opposed to "My First Hosting Ltd"

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