WestHost has upgraded from PHP 5.6 to PHP 7.0. This upgrade, while more secure and advanced, has been known to cause compatibility issues resulting in 500 and MySQL errors on some sites. If you encounter an issue on your site, please try the ...

How To Troubleshoot PHP Upgrade Issues

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. For security reasons we have turned this feature off to prevent account compromise.

Can I Enable PHP Allow_url_include On My Account

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Yes, you will need to do so with a local custom php.ini file.

Can I Increase The PHP post_max_size Setting

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Yes! Suhosin is not configured by the server php.ini, it mimics whatever is set in the closest configuration file. If you set up a local php.ini file in your ...

Can I Modify My Suhosin Settings With A Local php.ini File

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Our cPanel shared hosting does not include shell exec() functions by default. If you require this tool, please consider our Cloud or Dedicated server hosting ...

Can I Utilize PHP Shell Exec Functions

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. You cannot modify the server's root php.ini file. However, you can make your php.ini file that will override certain php variables. You just need to log into cPanel ...

Common php.ini Changes

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Yes, our servers support Zend Optimizer by default.

Does WestHost Support Zend Optimizer

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Yes, we support GD. You can upload the PDFs to your site and have GD call them, should have no problem there.

Do WestHost Servers Support The PHP GD Library

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Yes, Pear PHP is installed by default.

Do WestHost Shared Servers Have Pear PHP Installed

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. You may need to increase the memory PHP can use depending on how many modules or scripts you use on your site. If you get a blank screen on any pages, you have two ...

How To Modify PHP Memory Limit

To parse an HTML page as a PHP page the following code needs to be added to the accounts .htaccess file: <FilesMatch "\.(htm|html|php)$"> SetHandler application/x-httpd-php5 </FilesMatch>

How To Parse HTML As PHP

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Many PHP applications (WordPress, osCommerce, etc.) send special headers to the browser to redirect visitors to the appropriate section of the application. ...

How To Resolve The PHP Warning - Headers Already Sent

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Accounts in the cPanel shared may have trouble with local php.ini settings because you cannot change the server php.ini and using local php.ini files is not ...

How To Set Up Custom PHP Settings

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. To use PHP, make a file and give it a ".php" file extension such as myfile.php. Inside this file, you can put any HTML that would normally go on a Web page. ...

How To Use PHP

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Yes, WestHost shared servers should have PHP compiled with --enable-calendar by default. If you are not sure and would like to check, run the following command in ...

Is PHP Compiled With enable-calendar By Default

PHP is one of the most widely-used widely used server-side scripting languages on the internet today. It is fast, secure, and, best of all, open source (free). It can be used to create dynamic content, forms and form processors, connect to databases, ...

What Are The Benefits Of Coding In PHP

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Differences between phpsuexec and "regular PHP": When using the common PHP installation on a webserver, PHP runs as the user nobody and it doesn't require the ...

What Is PHPSUEXEC

suphp is a tool for executing PHP scripts with the permissions of their owners. So suphp is more secure. suphp does not allow permission 666 and 777. If you are trying to use these permission settings, then you will likely receive a 500 error in your ...

What Is suphp

This article is for cPanel Accounts. Determine where your account is with this guide. Keep in mind a lot of errors can be caused by Zend and other PHP extensions that place an “extension” line in the php.ini. If for instance, someone places their ...

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