shared-hosting

Securing a Git Repository

I have a shared hosting package and I have installed git from source. I created a repo and intend to create a couple more, but I was wondering if there is any way to secure the git repository. Currently I access it over regular http. I do have a shared SSL cert, but I'm pretty sure that won't be of use here. Edit: by secure, I mean auth...

Thread.Join in a shared hosting environment

Hi, I wonder if someone can help me - I've been programming VB.Net for a long time but have rarely had to do much threading in ASP.Net. I'm attempting to take "screenshots" of websites using an in-memory browser. These images are then logged in a DB and written to the local file system. When I run it on my local server, it all works f...

Shared Server not supporting gzip.

I have designed a website in ASP and uploaded on readyhosting's windows shared server. I ask them to enable gzip option from IIS web server but they are no supporting. Is there any option to compress files over network? thanks, Rau ...

Rails application on shared hosting?

Is there a way that I can deploy my locally made rails app on a shared host that has Ruby installed? ...

How do you use gettext on server (Apache) you can’t restart ?

I asked this question on serverfault but I didn't get any response. I try here... I developped a site on my web server at home. When I modify the translation files, I have to restart the web server Apache. /etc/init.d/httpd graceful Easy... Suppose that my site is hosted on shared host. Suppose now I need to modify the translation ...

Need help with Security Exception in ASP.Net MVC web application

Hi. I have written 3 ASP.net MVC web applications, and all are deployed on shared hosting servers with my ISP. All 3 applications are very similar in configuration and settings. The 1st application is deployed to a different server than the 2nd and 3rd. The 1st application gives me no errors. The 2nd and 3rd applications spit out the ...

Which directories are writable by web server on shared web-hosting?

Currently I'm using shared webhost (Linux) to host my site. I know that anything inside '~/home/my_user_name/www' directory is writable by server. What are the other locations? Basically I want to change default session storage location and probably I shouldn't put it inside www directory. Edit Does session saving location has to be w...

Is there a piece of secret data in a Linux user account?

I want my application (PHP, but that shouldn't matter) to store some data in a shared repository (the APC user cache, but again irrelevant). To prevent users from reading eachother's data I'd like to encrypt it per user. I could have the user specify the key in his configuration file for the application, but I'd rather generate it autom...

PHP & MS Access 2007 on Shared Linux Hosting

Basically I work for a dining services company that has a menu database that we use for each week at multiple locations stored in a Microsoft Access 2007 .accdb file. I'm trying to develop a PHP application on shared hosting so that the .accdb file can be uploaded and queried as to generate and store HTML menus for the week based on the ...

DotNetNuke installation on a shared hosting with control panel set to /admin

Hi, I need to deploy DNN 5.X site on a shared hosting server. This shared hosting has its control panel set to the virtual directory /admin. So if my site's URL is www.something.com, then the control panel will be www.something.com/admin. The problem I am having now is that DNN has its own /admin folder with lots of controls located the...

Use HTML Tidy executable with php, instead of compling

I have an application in php that is intended for shared hosting. So, I am going to have a hard time always getting html tidy compiled, since the hosts will vary, and what they provide will vary. Is it possible to just include the tidy executable in with my php application, and somehow, pipe html through that for cleaning? I am just l...

Any way to know if .htaccess is enable?

Hi, any way to know if .htaccess is enable? I cannot read the httpd.conf file in my shared server. I have access through ssh. My hosting provider uses cPanel Accelerated. Regards Javi ...

server performance: multiple external connections and performance

I am creating a php script that requires the server to make several cURL requests per run. I'll be running this script through cron every 3 minutes. Im looking to maximize the amount of cURL requests I can make in a 24 hr period. What I am wondering is if it would be better from a performance standpoint to get a dedicated server, or se...

How to setup Mercurial central repository on shared hosting

Hey Everyone, I am trying to setup a central repository with shared hosting. I read all the way through this tutorial http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/PublishingRepositories to no avail. Here are the steps I took. 1. Copy hgwebdir.cgi file to directory at http://url.com/central_repository/hgwebdir.cgi 2. Added the following informatio...

Is it possible to read from Mercurial repository using PHP

Hey Everyone, After trying to get the mercurial repository explorer setup on my shared hosting with no luck, I have decided to try and write a module for our Intranet that will act as a repository explorer. Is it possible for me to get changesets from a Mercurial repository without Mercurial installed on the machine? Thanks for any h...

Using db4o with multiple application instances under medium trust

I recently stumbled over the object database engine db4o which I think looks really interesting. I would like to use it in an ASP.NET MVC application that will be deployed to a shared hosting environment under medium trust. Because of the trust level, I'm restricted to using db4o in embedded/in-process mode. That in itself should be no ...

Can't get max_post_size php variable set in lunar pages.

I need to increase max post size and upload size for php to use the audio module of drupal. I read this has to be set in php.ini. However I don't think I have access to that file in lunar pages. I also read it can also be set in .htaccess. However it doesn't change anything. I tried: php_value post_max_size "40M" php_value upload_max...

PHP: Using browscap.ini on shared host. - ini_set() failing

I'm trying to use get_browser() , unfortunately my page is on a shared host, and I have no access to php.ini. I have downloaded the latest version of browscap.ini and placed in my document root. I have then added the following:- if (!ini_set('browscap', '/home/private stuff/browscap.ini')) { echo "Failed to set browscap"; } else...

C# Graphics.RotateTransform works on localhost, but not on remote server

It works on my machine... I have a problem with using a C# Graphics method on my ASP.NET web host. I'm combining two map pins into a single image. I load an empty pin image and write a number on top of it. I then combine two of these, having rotated one 15 degrees and the other -15 degrees. It looks fine running through my localhost we...

Is it possible to set up MongoDB in a shared hosting?

I'm using GoDaddy and would like to have MongoDB for my pet project.. but I don't really think its possible, since it has to be running the Daemon... but.. it doesn't hurt to ask, is there a way? ...