Turns out that Installing on D6 on a new IX WebHosting account is a bit of a pain.
You'll need to contact tech support and ask them to do three things for you:
enable php to send email
disable register_globals
disable multibyte string input conversion
Unlike many shared hosts MySQL doesn't run on localhost with IXWebHosting. When you enter your database information into the installer click on the advanced options tab and enter the IP address of the server your DB is running on.
Once your site is installed you can configure cron by going to the FTP Manager section of the cPanel and then in the resulting window selecting enable Cron, then click the edit tab that shows up. (took a while to find that one).
The command format is /usr/local/bin/php /hsphere/local/home/YOUR_ACCOUNT/YOURSITE.COM/cron.php 2> /dev/null
hopefully that helps someone down the road.
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Please I am on this host from
Please I am on this host from today and I wish to install Drupal on it too. Does IXWH allow more memory (only 32M), or other tweaks? I show my phpinfo.php and it is terrible - I am novice in Drupal and php.
P.S.:
It is very crazy phpinfo.php says that all needed is done (e.g. register_globals is Off /local and master value/), but Drupal says it is ON.And it simply deletes any file .htaccess (new, renamed, ...).
P.S.: I am very impressed. On LiveChat I asked for php.ini, in a couple of seconds I became my own php.ini and its done.
Therefore IX Web Hosting
Just create php.ini
You don't need to contact technical support for this,
You just need to create a php.ini in your cgi-bin dir and add the line
register_globals off
That's all that's in mine, all the messages went away and have a memory limit of 128M
I also had to take the following out of the .htaccess that drupal creates
php_flag mbstring.encoding_translation off