Shell acces / compiling ming etc...

[pitu]

Hello,

Is shell access allowed or not? I did connect and my passwords work but then again i prefer to make sure... after all those warnings

I need it so I could compile the ming module for php... I dont even know if this is feasable but would like to try...

[AndrewT]

Yes shell access is available. All compilers are disabled and any attempt to circumvent this will result in an immediate suspension. You cannot even compile modules into PHP anyways, this is a shared hosting environment. Ming is not something that we offer.

[pitu]

Thank you for your answer... but now I am a little confused:

As I saw on the phpinfo that dl_enabled is On I figured that one can load external modules. Are you saying one must not load ming exclusively or just any module that is not offered ?!

Yet another thing, concerning ming, there is a compiled module at sourceforge. Can I use that one? Is only compiling forbidden or loading external modules as well....

[AndrewT]

Not quite sure where you're seeing "dl_enabled".

Loading any additional modules is not an option.

[Buddha]

It's backwards... suppose to be enable_dl. And it is ON in cPanel33 at least. Not like it matters, you don't compile any extra PHP options and under PHP cgi enable_dl is pretty useless anyway.

[pitu]

enable dl is on - cpanel 37

buddha, I was thinking of using dl or setting the extensions dir and loading the module in the php.ini file which both may be useless anyway now...

"Loading any additional modules is not an option."- and "you dont compile any extra php modules" is something i would have liked to see in the "things that would get you account suspended" thread or at least in the explication of the suexec module...

It would have saved me some time...

[Buddha]

It's backwards... suppose to be enable_dl. And it is ON in cPanel33 at least. Not like it matters, you don't compile any extra PHP options and under PHP cgi enable_dl is pretty useless anyway.

Just to clairfy the bold statement was directed at Andrew. When he compiles PHP he doesn't turn ON any extra options, such as, in your case Pitu, --with-ming. I do have and had hosts that compile PHP with everything ON even if it's not available which IMHO is a bad practice that invites trouble.

Didn't want anyone misinterpreting my late night ramblings.