Angelfire. Does it support PHP?
 

I have a website through angelfire/lycos which I pay for. I couldn't find any info about whether or not it supports php. I want to install a phpbb message board on the site.

If anyone knows, help me out. Thanks.

I'm going to suspect no.
Even in paid for domians through these sites, there are usually heavy restrictions. The reason is that the average user of their hosting service does not request these things, and it helps security to disable them.

An example would be Yahoo. Even with paid hosting, you cannot change the .httaccess file as I understand it.

Hmmm. So even though you see these boards everywhere, they are always on private servers?

ok make a file called "info.php"
use a text editor to put this in "<? phpinfo() ?>"

it will give you all kinds of info about php on that server...

here the info.php file on my webserver
http://jschrodt.net/info.php

And if it doesn't, that means the server doesn't support PHP.