I still have an active site on PAYH and at present have no plans to move it. If the main problem is with safe mode restrictions, there are workarounds which make use of the CLI and CGI versions of PHP on PAYH. One way to avoid the need for safe mode on PAYH is to use a wrapper (cries of "oh no, not again"):
phpwrapper.cgi
#!/opt/php52/bin/php5-cgi
<?php
$_ENV["SCRIPT_NAME"]=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']=$_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"]=$_ENV["REDIRECT_URL"];
$_ENV["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]=$_SERVER["SCRIPT_FILENAME"]=$_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"].$_ENV["REDIRECT_URL"];
ereg('^(.*)/([^/]*\.php)$', $_ENV["REDIRECT_URL"], $wrap_url);
chdir('/var/www/vhosts/username.plushost.co.uk/httpdocs/'.$wrap_url{1});
include $wrap_url{2};
?>
replacing username. Place in the cgi-bin and add this .htaccess to your root:
rewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \.php$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^cgi-bin/phpwrapper\.cgi
RewriteRule .* cgi-bin/phpwrapper.cgi
You may also need to disable phpBB's own .htaccess. Then you can run your site without safe-mode restrictions and with includes permissions on .php files. (NB, to avoid confusion, this wrapper is for PAYH. A slightly different one was recently suggested for ccgi, so solve a different set of problems.)
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