Right i have a script i wish to use as a part of my website, but it needs a .htaccess file. but my host does not allow this. is there a way around needing a .htaccess file?

To use .htaccess your server must have it enabled.

Drop me a PM if you like I could help you out with hosting.

grr at my host.... i didnt realise they were windows only hosting causing it to be impossible to use .htaccess

As far as I'm aware you can use .htaccess on a Windows Server.... who told you that?

.htaccess is mainly for an appache as far as i was aware, the reason liquidsix gave me was it causes security problems.

You can certainly install apache on Windows, I am pretty sure about that. But yes your in the hands of someone else managing that server so it's not as easy as doing it yourself.

You can run Apache off Windows although most run Linux like Fedora: http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5523

Yeah i used to manage my own Windows Apache server, but due to the fact im limited to a slow upload speed now its now theasible for me to continue doing this, this is why im using another firm for my hosting, and they use ISS or whatever it is... the windows server.

A friend of mine signed up for windows hosting, by the time I'd built his site I'd made them swap it over to linux