ID a Hosting environment

[EdenWeb]

Is there a simple way to find out if a site hosted on a Linux or Windows platform?

 

[mneylon]

Yes. You can use the HEAD command if you have access to a linux machine OR you can use an online service such as Netcraft

 

[EdenWeb]

Got it. Cheers.
Looks like it is a linux server but it hasn't been config'd for .php files.

 

[mneylon]

Got it. Cheers.
Looks like it is a linux server but it hasn't been config'd for .php files.

You'll get that

 

[RedCardinal]

A couple of FF plugins will also help you out:

Developer Tools
ShowIP

 

[EdenWeb]

I finally just called them.
They say its a Unix server and only supports PERL and CGI.
Are they 'having a laugh'?

 

[mneylon]

Are they 'having a laugh'

There are plenty of hosts that offer support for PHP etc., so you can always move .....

 

[rsynnott]

They're perfectly entitled not to offer it if they don't want to... It's only another Apache module.

 

[mneylon]

They're perfectly entitled not to offer it if they don't want to... It's only another Apache module.

The client can also leave ....

These days most hosts would offer perl and php as standard.

Not offering some "funky" scripting language I could understand, but PHP or Perl?

 

[rsynnott]

The client can also leave ....

These days most hosts would offer perl and php as standard.

Not offering some "funky" scripting language I could understand, but PHP or Perl?

Possibly security reasons. They may simply not have the expertise.

 

[georgiecasey]

PHP is so ubiquitous these days every host should support them

 

[anthonymcg]

Possibly security reasons. They may simply not have the expertise.

They shouldn't be in the hosting game then. Choice of programming languages these days extends way beyond Perl and CGI

 

[EdenWeb]

Well I'm not going to name them but budget and expertise shouldn't be a problem. They have enough money to market themselves in Ireland and the UK. They're just being plain unhelpful.

 

[rsynnott]

PHP is so ubiquitous these days every host should support them

To be honest, if I was using a shared webhost for a static site where I wasn't absolutely sure that the operators were competent (and you only have to look at a web host message board to see that 99% of webhost operators are incompetent) I'd prefer that there was no PHP available to the other users on the server. Or CGI, for that matter.