Symfony with only FTP access

I'm currently developing on my local pc, to which I have complete access of course.

However to my produc开发者_StackOverflow社区tion server I have only FTP access.

Now, this step http://www.symfony-project.org/getting-started/1_4/en/05-Web-Server-Configuration

On Symfony's installation guide, suggests that I need to edit the httpd.conf

I was wondering if there's an alternative since I don't have access to it on production.

Try reading this. I haven't tried installing Symfony on a shared host, but I see no reason for it not to work.

Generally shared hosts allow you to set configuration parameters in .htaccess files, so you can override httpd.conf without modifying it.