There had been increase demand for SVN lately, and there are reader of this bluehost review blog asking about installing SVN at bluehost hosting plan. SVN is a version control software, which it will keep an old copy of the file and keep track of the changes. SVN is now replacing the CVS concurrent version software. There are bluehost user whos interested to setup bluehost svn client and hopefully allows them to carry our file versioning management here.
Its hard to search for right information online, regarding installing SVN at bluehost. We had look through multiple source and carry out some hard work to get it working as well. Thanks to the bluehost forum article at http://bluehostforum.com/showpost.php?p=7223&postcount=16 .. the bluehost svn client is successfully installed.
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This will be a quick review about hosting a forum script at bluehost web hosting plan. Question is, will bluehost hosting suitable for phpbb forum script hosting, the famous open source forum discussion script. Note that phpbb are forum scripts and it require more server response expecially php process and mysql database query, if compared to web publishing or blogging website. So, its important to test it out and review it.
phpBB forum script is available for installation from blue host fantastico, we use that link to quickly setup phpbb at this blue hosting plan. Once we are done, we perform some quick testing on the new forum site. Browsing the new forum, to identify any slowliness in server response etc. What we find out is what we expected, bluehost hosting is using high end server, thus hosting a phpbb forum site will be OK as long you are running a small size forum.
New Installation (3.0.3)
Disk space required: 44.84 MB
Disk space available: Unlimited MB
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Are you looking forward to setup scripts that require .htaccess overwrite? Most open source php script uses .htaccess to provide some amazing url redirection and overwriting feature. .htaccess file is a feature available in apache server, and it provide much more features than that!
Bluehost .htaccess file can do:
- url redirection & user redirection.
- password protect folder or directory
- custom error pages and redirection
- changing file extensions & hide file extension
- banning users by certian IP addresses & allow users with certain IP addresses
- stop/prevent directory listing
Bluehost hosting support .htaccess overwrite. And .htaccess file for your script is usually provided in your download folder. Upload these .htaccess file to bluehost server, and refresh your page, it will take effect right the way. Uploading and implementing .htaccess is simple as that.
For more tutorial on .htaccess file editing and command line, visit the bluehost & .htaccess page at here: http://helpdesk.bluehost.com/kb/index.php?x=&mod_id=2&root=13&id=130 . I really find this tutorial extremely useful when you are newbies. 
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At early of this year, bluehost.com was starting to offering both php version 4 and php version 5, at your choice. By default, the sign up will be locating you at the php4 server box. As most the script in market is supporting this version 4 script. However, if you need to have php5 on bluehost server, then you need to contact bluehost support through email or through live chat or give them a phone call.
As usual, bluehost support will need to verify your account, and after that will migrate your account to the server with php5. As this involve server and IP changed, your website will be down for 1-4 hours. And best news is that there is no extra charge. Bluehost will migrate your site to php 5 free of charge.
I just checked my bluehost cpanel account, and i am still at the php version 4.4.6 . That is a php 4 apache server running version 1.3.37. And at this point, i not having script that require php5 to run, so there is no future planning to move over to version 5. If you need it, then request for the move.
The next posting will try to cover some bluehost fantastico and script installation, since we are already at the php and script installation thing.
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