Posted by hansBKK on 04/02/07 08:42

Andy Hassall <andy@andyh.co.uk> wrote in
news:sokv031bogbhsjh8uab4okh6053u5u1315@4ax.com:

>>More importantly, I've been told that mod_rewrite REQUIRES php running
>>as a module, so on a host running CGI, I CANNOT get permalinks, pretty
>>URLs, etc. Is this true?
>
> I don't think so; many of the mod_rewrite examples explicitly use a CGI
script as the target.

> However, something almost opposite may be true - with PHP as CGI you
_require_ mod_rewrite to get pretty URLs.

OK, got it, thanks for the correction. So I won't necessarily demand module
mode, but will look at mod_rewrite as a deal-breaker.


> Note that there are "degrees" of safe mode, in that once safe mode is
on, functions can then be selectively restricted - a safe mode host with
many restrictions enabled could be awkward to work on, depending on what
features you actually need.

So to avoid complications, I'll make sure to choose a host with safe mode
turned off.

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