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ok lets make this a little simpler than my last topic.

I found this site which everyone who follows it seems to be getting results from, though it says "You are expected to be knowledgeable in the UNIX shell." which i have got no idea what that even is.

I tried to follow the instuctions as best as I could with no luck so could someone please explain that to me in simpler/noob terms.

Also i can not use .htaccess files so is there anyway i can do this without them?

Thanks,
Scottmandoo

btw im asking here because it also states "Support for these instructions is not available from DreamHost tech support."

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think of "shell" as "dos prompt for unix".
there are several of them and each has a superset of the same basic commands.

When you log into a host via ssh, after logging in you "get a shell" where you can type commands.

Most people mean Bourne Shell (or Born again shell) when they generically say "shell". There's also C shell, Korn shell and a bunch of others (like openssl and CPAN shells) specifically used as a sort of client to specialized interfaces.

A "shell script" is nothing more than some shell commands put into a file one command per line.

You save it as something.sh
chmod 755 something.sh
then you can run it like a program.

At the top of the script, you specify which shell should run and interpret it with a "shebang" line:

#!/bin/bash

for bourne again shell

To learn more about linux, and a short introduction to the shell go here

If you are working with a unix like system (linux, bsd, osx) you need to know this. It will make it possible to use the system and make it bend to your will.

cheers!

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