Bluehost support this?

[greg4sam]

Hi, I was wondering if Bluehost can enable the theses things in PHP for my hosting account.

PDO (MySQL), Tidy, cURL, GD, and Magic Quotes disabled, and a .htaccess so that I may do URL rewrites.
Thanks!

[greg4sam]

Sorry I was a little buzzed off of beer the other night when I wrote this. What I ment to say is, does Blue Host have a windows account that supports PHP, if not will Blue Host have one in the near future? thanks

[areidmtm]

Why do people always come here when they're drunk?

Bluehost does not support anything windows. The CEO has said many time that he hates Microsoft and will never support them.

[Early Out]

....and if you're looking for PHP, why would you want Windows hosting?

[felgall]

Hi, I was wondering if Bluehost can enable the theses things in PHP for my hosting account.

PDO (MySQL), Tidy, cURL, GD, and Magic Quotes disabled, and a .htaccess so that I may do URL rewrites.
Thanks!

I believe BlueHost has most if not all of those already enabled and that most other Linux hosting with PHP would have as well. Windows hosting is relatively rare to start with and is far more expensive than Linux hosting since Windows costs money and most of the web runs on Linux. Most Windows hosting would not have PHP available and so you'd probably have to get a VPS or dedicated hosting to set up that sort of combination for yourself - in which case you can install whatever additional features that you like.

The other thing is that Windows hosting is more likely to be running IIS rather than Apache and IIS has its own way of handling redirects that does not involve a .htaccess file (which in any case is a Linux naming convention since the leading dot makes it a hidden file).