How to remove Safe_Mode?

ocworld

I am using a piece of forum software called IPB but it doesn't support safe_mode as it is too restrictive (or at least that's what their support told me); so I need to remove it, I had a look at my webhost's FAQ (my webhost is Freedom2Surf (www.f2s.com)) and this is what it says:

# Is PHP running in SAFE MODE?

Yes. The PHP engine is compiled as a safe mode enabled Apache module. This makes it execute PHP scripts extremely quickly and safely. If the safe mode is too restrictive for your requirements, eg: you want to create a file upload script, then the php cgi engine can be used instead.

To run the slower cgi version of PHP your php file should end in .cgi and include at the top of the file the line:

#!/usr/bin/php

For more details on cgi scripts please see the Perl section of this FAQ.

I don't really understand this or how I should go about doing it, what files do I need to edit? What is #!/usr/bin/php - anyway if someone could explain to me - in english what I have to do I would really appreciate it!

planetsim

Well #!/usr/bin/php is just another way to use the PHP Engine it should be the first line called the shebang, the path which must be after it is the path to the program to interpret the script.

Now to the practicality of you actually doing it, well there isnt any. Mainly because there would be so much to update, and get working again. If you really want to have it working I suggest getting a new host or find another forum to use.