For those still having issues with Fasthosts I have finally managed to deploy two Silverstripe powered sites on their Linux Shared Hosting platform - it was a big headache but everything is now working.
There are two steps involved, one is an amendment to the Core.php file courtesy of Matty Balaam in this thread.
Amendment to the bottom of /sapphire/core/Core.php
/**
* Increase the time limit of this script. By default, the time will
be unlimited.
* @param $timeLimit The time limit in seconds. If omitted, no time
limit will be set.
*/
function increase_time_limit_to($timeLimit = null) {
if(!ini_get('safe_mode')) {
if(!$timeLimit) {
} else {
$currTimeLimit = ini_get('max_execution_time');
if($currTimeLimit && $currTimeLimit < $timeLimit) {
}
}
}
}
?>
Step two is the alteration of various .htaccess files. Fasthosts seem to be preventing anything but mod_rewrite rules from being used in .htaccess files, so the main .htaccess in the root is below:
# Use PHP5 as default
#AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
### SILVERSTRIPE START ###
#<Files *.ss>
#Order deny,allow
#Deny from all
#Allow from 127.0.0.1
#</Files>
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.gif$)|(\.jpg$)|(\.png$)|(\.css$)|(\.js$)|(\.php$)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule .* sapphire/main.php?url=%1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
</IfModule>
### SILVERSTRIPE END ###
You will need to comment out the deny/allow rules in cms/.htaccess and sapphire/.htaccess
Hope that helps. The biggest suggestion I'd give is host elsewhere but I was stuck with a client who had already paid for a full year of hosting with Fasthosts... :S
