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How do I check my server's settings?

It is very common for new webmasters to purchase space on a webhosting server instead of building their own server from the ground up. Servers are complicated and cost tons of money. Unfortunately, when you use a webhosting server that is not yours, you have no clue what your server's stats are.

Fortunately, there is always that clever line that we software developers like to use, "Ask your server administrator." We say this because we honestly have no clue about your server and that can't be helped.

However, all is not lost. I'll show you one really easy method to get all of the info about your server that you will need to do just about anything with it. First, open your favorite text editor and copy the following code.

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

Save this file as anything.php. It is crucial that you put .php at the end of the name because this file must be parsed as PHP code! Send this file to your webspace. Open your web browser and navigate to this file.

You should see a massive webpage with all kinds of data about your server. At the very top of the page should be your PHP version number. Majicko 1.0.0 BETA was developed and tested on PHP version 4.4.6. Anything above 4.4 will work well and anything down to PHP 4.0 may work. There should be some information about your SQL environment on this page too.

If you don't see such a page or your browser attempts to download the PHP file, then you do not have PHP and therefore cannot use Majicko. This is something you may want to ask your server administrators before you purchase their webspace.