PHP restrictions / disabled functions
Question
What are the restrictions placed on free hosting accounts?
Answer
Due to the abuse of free hosting resources, we disable certain functions.
PHP sendmail is enabled on all free hosting accounts by default.
The following restrictions / PHP settings are in effect:
fopen wrappers / curl are disabled (causing RSS feeds to fail unless Java driven aka feedburner.com , etc )
SMTP Email is disabled
IMAP Email is disabled
Safe Mode is OFF
Some .htaccess directives are not supported.
.htaccess files must be CHMOD 644
The following PHP functions are disabled :
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exec,system,passthru,shell_exec,escapeshellarg,esc apeshellcmd,proc_close,proc_open,ini_alter,dl,pope
n,curl_exec,popen,pcntl_exec,socket_accept,socket_ bind,socket_clear_error,socket_close,socket_connec
t,socket_create_listen,socket_create_pair,socket_c reate,socket_get_option,socket_getpeername,socket_
getsockname,socket_last_error,socket_listen,socket _read,socket_recv,socket_recvfrom,socket_select,so
cket_send,socket_sendto,socket_set_block,socket_se t_nonblock,socket_set_option,socket_shutdown,socke
t_strerror,socket_write,stream_socket_client,strea m_socket_server,fsockopen,pfsockopen,stream_set_ti
meout,chown,getrusage,get_current_user,set_time_li mit,getmyuid,getmypid,dl,leak,listen,chgrp,link,sy
mlink,dlopen,proc_nice,proc_get_stats,proc_termina te,shell_exec,sh2_exec,posix_getpwuid,posix_getgrg
id,posix_kill,ini_restore,mkfifo,dbmopen,dbase_ope n,filepro,filepro_rowcount,posix_mkfifo,putenv,sle ep
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posted on 11-11-2008 at 10:11 PM
