Although I have experience helping maintain servers, I am a complete newb to starting my own from scratch, so please bear with me. I want to run Drupal on my Yahoo server, but they do not have Drupal listed as a possible CMS to install, so I was wondering if I can just make my site on my local machine, then upload it to Yahoo? I know that Drupal's site basically says just that, but here's where I'm a little confused: If I make my site locally, do I install PHP/MySQL on my Yahoo server, or do I just upload those support files instead? Should I install Drupal/PHP/MySQL inside of Apache on my local machine or just my regular project folder? I also know about the smaller & more technical compatibility issues with Drupal & Yahoo, but I think I have those covered through crazy amounts of research. Thanks!
you have to have PHP & mySQL running on the server - you cant just copy the files up there.. Does Yahoo allow you to configure and run them?
No, they don't. I'm just trying everything I can to make this site work the way I want it to. I'm already cutting enough corners as it is, as I'm not a code guru yet, and I just want what little php I do know to work just fine...I don't want to have to worry if something I'm doing is version 4 or 5, because I don't really know how to tell the difference right now.
Well without PHP and mySQL it aint gunna happen.. WTH doesnt Yahoo let you do this? you can get a shared host that lets you do this for $4/month !
When I asked the guy on the phone that very question today, he said that the engineers at Yahoo are telling everyone that PHP is unstable. Now while I know that anyone who uses sloppy code in general can make any server insecure, but COME ON,,,,,they're Yahoo! I'm sure they can figure something out.
Yahoo won't allowed you use PHP and mySQL, but there lot of free hostings with PHP and mySQL, just search it
Yeah, tell me about it. I have my own sites going up on globat.com right now. It's not the very best at all (no free additional sub-domains, but who needs them anyway?), but I get to have php, mysql, drupal, htaccess, and my personal favorite, they actually honor the "unlimited storage space" that's stated in the ad. I've been turning my site into a private file server for mass distribution of software amongst my clients. The only drawback I can find is that I don't get to ssh into the server, but I've been finding some really creative ways to get the same things done without ssh.
go to free-webhosts.com , there lot of free web hosting which support PHP also has CPanel, you can choose one to try Drupal