fix problem by changing hosts

[The Bicycling Guitarist]

I've wasted so many people's time trying to educate the tech guy at my
host's i.s.p. At least my site has been fine-tuned over and over again to
eliminate possible errors.

Enough already. I talked to another local hosting company whose rates are
competitive. They use Apache! I hope they know what they're doing. I'd hate
to go through this again. Either way, I won't trouble you folks again for
this problem if I determine it's my host's server that's screwing up.

Perhaps once I transfer, if somebody could help me check things, just once,
to see if it's set up properly. If not, I'll switch hosts again rather than
try to educate a tech.

Thanks, Chris Watson a.k.a. "The Bicycling Guitarist"

[Neal]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:51:21 GMT, The Bicycling Guitarist
<Ch***@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net> wrote:

Enough already. I talked to another local hosting company whose rates are
competitive. They use Apache! I hope they know what they're doing.

Nice thing about Apache - there's a lot you can do in .htaccess that other
servers might not allow you to do yourself. I personally think it's the
best server to be hosted on.

[Stephen Poley]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:04:58 -0400, Neal <ne*****@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:51:21 GMT, The Bicycling Guitarist
<Ch***@TheBicyclingGuitarist.net> wrote:

Enough already. I talked to another local hosting company whose rates are
competitive. They use Apache! I hope they know what they're doing.

Nice thing about Apache - there's a lot you can do in .htaccess that other
servers might not allow you to do yourself. I personally think it's the
best server to be hosted on.

Well yes, but the use of .htaccess has to be enabled first. Some ISPs
enable it, some don't; I rather suspect the latter are in the majority.

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

[Brian]

Stephen Poley wrote:

the use of .htaccess has to be enabled first. Some ISPs enable it,
some don't; I rather suspect the latter are in the majority.

I've never done a survey, but I'd think the opposite is true. If you
enable .htaccess, you transfer quite a lot of problems from tech support
to the user. I imagine that'd be a pretty strong incentive.

--
Brian (remove "invalid" to email me)

[Eric B. Bednarz]

Stephen Poley <sb******************@xs4all.nl> writes:

Well yes, but the use of .htaccess has to be enabled first. Some ISPs
enable it, some don't; I rather suspect the latter are in the majority.

If you have a free user account from your access provider, your
suspicion generally holds true; fair enough, that's not completely
unreasonable (since you can limit the scope of the user's possibilities
to clog the server load, it's unfair enough not to provide at least
possibilities to set the charset parameter and redirects canonically).

(Commercial hosting plans starting at EUR 2,- a month usually offer
*more* than is reasonable for the target audience.)
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[Stan Brown]

"Stephen Poley" <sb******************@xs4all.nl> wrote in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:

Well yes, but the use of .htaccess has to be enabled first. Some ISPs
enable it, some don't; I rather suspect the latter are in the majority.

That's something I hope the OP checks out before transferring to the
new host. I personally would not contract with a host that didn't
let me use .htaccess.

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