Hosting Tools analysis not accurate

My host tools in the admin panel show that my magic quotes are turned on when in fact verified they are turned off as boonex host tool suggest. As well the post size and upload execution time matched boonex's "should be" number but it still comes back showing a warning saying that it does not. Also it shows that APC accelerator is not installed when it is installed and usable. I just wanted to report this. It is a common problem or just a reactive problem to my hosting?

Something to do with the hosting.

And you have verified this how? By taking your hosting companies word for it?

I can understand that possibility the APC accelerator might not be properly picked up, but not the PHP settings as that can be configured on a per directory basis on some hosts, so you may think the settings are correct where you happen to be trying to test them, but may not actually have that setting from within the dolphin folders.

I have installed dolphin many times on several hosts, and the checks in the admin panel have always been accurate.

I pulled the php.ini file that applies to all my folders. The only way I can control per directory is to create my own php.ini file and place it in the directory I want it to apply to. Otherwise my sys/php5/php.ini file controls it all. I also have some user friendly controls where you can change php configuration within the control panel.

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I am going to leave everything I typed above this line. I did have some php.ini files that I created for some directories just for this particular domain that was making sure register globals was off and that was it. I had a script on another domain that need globals on so I had the server configuration to globals on and all my dolphin directories had custom php.ini files. I got rid of the script that needed globals to be on and turned off register_globals in my php configuration on my piece of the server. I must have missed a couple php.ini files in the directories (but I have them deleted now) that was causing my host tools to give me those results. I have now got rid of every single php.ini file in the directories and just one master file controls all of it now. The host tools are now reading correctly and everything is as it should be. I thought I had rid myself of all the directory php.ini files. Even though they was not in every directory I guess they were still overwriting what the host tools was showing me.

Sorry for the confusion. I was just trying to streamline my site and could not figure why the host tools would not reflect my configuration changes. Everything is good now.

I have APC enabled in my php configuration with my shared hosting provider. As well I have selected APC on all the areas in my "advanced settings" in my dolphin admin panel. But in the host tools under "cache engines" it still says "not installed" and "not available". How can I verify if its working or not?

 A shared host has a cache engine enabled?? I've never heard of that. They eat memory like candy so if the shared host has more than a few accounts on that server I can't see how it doesn't crash??

On a related note I tested APC, Xcache and Eaccelerator on my server and none of them really increased the speed enough to make the memory hassle worth it. Plus all the other assorted errors any annoyances that they came with.

To answer your question though APC comes with a file called apc.php that you can place in /administration . Then you can run it and it shows you everything that APC is caching (or not caching if it isn't running).

 Yeah they sure do have it as an option for me to use. Atleast they do for my account level. Though I am on shared hosting they have higher plans. I am one below the largest plan so I thoughts are maybe that everyone on the server may not have use of the APC or maybe everybody on that server does Im not sure. I have actually been with them for many years now and am continued to be very happy for a shared hosting plan. I guess my biggest praise is 365 days a year if I ask a question any time of the day they answer me within 5 to 20 minutes with a 1 hour response guarantee. In my many years with them they hold of their end of the deal. The typical Cpanel everyone is used to and discuss around the net I do not have they have their own in house created Hepsia Control panel which I enjoy much more.

Thanks for your personal tested results for the accelerators because I was curious how much I was really helping. I to had some initial problems my host help me resolve when I enable APC. I've also had my cron job stop firing. It will fire manually but I get a segmentation fault. Still working on that in another thread. No luck so far but I wasn't thinking making the upgrade to php5.3.9 and enabling APC would have any effect on my cron. Sorry I am getting into another topic.

I'll have to ask my host for that apc.php file unless in my server root somewhere. I try to get this so I check it out.

Thanks mscott