Is PHP safe mode turned on?
Yes. Why? Safe Mode is is a PHP setting that is used on many shared web servers to protect users from having their files accessed by other users. It basically only allows you to access files that are owned by your own user account. Unfortunately, this can cause problems if you have a PHP script that creates files, because the files will end up being owned by the web server user instead of your own user. There are many brain dead programmers out there that think that web hosting providers that have safe mode turned on are bad and should be avoided. However, these programmers usually don’t understand the importance of providing this protection of file access by other users on a shared service. They are also usually used to running their own private webserver that doesn’t need this restriction. Unless the web hosting provider is doing something special to protect users from this type of access, you should not trust providers that simply turn this feature off. Your website could end up bei
