No .htaccess under Yahoo ?

[musicollect]

My current website host is Yahoo.

I've been attempting to setup osCommerce and all attempts to upload any "." files (.htaccess etc.) but all fail if using FTP.

 

A short error message shows in FTP that "not allowed with your account".

 

Does anyone know if this is a Yahoo limitation or am I just going about the upload all wrong?

 

(Yahoo's online help has no reference to .htaccess)...

[♥Vger]

Some hosts will not allow the use of any files which start with a full stop, as in .htaccess. Basically they don't want you enabling anything in your account that they have disabled. For instance, if register_globals is disabled by Yahoo you could turn it on for your site by using .htaccess - so they stop you from using .htaccess altogether.

 

You could try uploading the file as htaccess.txt and then renaming it, but I doubt if that will work.

 

Solution - find a decent hosting company!

 

Vger

[ozcsys]

I will have to second that opinion. Yahoo hosting is probably ok for a plain html site but trying to get and keep an osC working with them is like trying to move water with a fork. There are plenty of good hosting companies out there that will not fight you at every turn that there is really no reason to fight with getting osC setup because of hosting issues.

[musicollect]

Thanks guys for the response.

I have already tried the .txt upload / rename thing, but same story.

 

According to Yahoo, I can control access on a directory level throughout my site.

Would this be enough or are there still other security concerns?

 

At first, I had big problems with timeouts when trying to load up my database but I eventually overcame all that by simply "optimizing" the database with PhpMyAdmin prior to each data import from Easy Populate.