editing php ini file

Hi guys,

my company currently is using an unmanaged dedicated server and i wish to edit the php.ini and httdp.conf file by myself... how can i do that ??

actually i able to ssh to the server... but i just dunno how to edit the file i found.. is it i need to download the file and upload it back after edited by using ssh ??? if that is the way, how could i download it then ?? is there any shell command i can use to download or upload the file to server ??

because when i use ftp programme, i just cant get to the directory i wanna go.. or can i edit the file directly from the ssh programme ?? i am using putty,,

please advise.

You should be able to use vi or pico or nano over an ssh session to edit the file. Vi's the best of these editors, but pico and nano (they're the same thing, the best I can tell) are much easier to use because they give you editing instructions onscreen. Vi's stronger, but a little arcane. Try typing "pico <filename>." If that fails, try "nano <filename>." And if that fails, try "vi <filename>." These are all just plain text editors. You might want to test whichever editor you use on an unimportant file before opening a conf file and potentially screwing things up.