Alternative To .htaccess When

hi all

thanks to this great community !

I am trying to build mu first web application with yii

From what I understood a .htaccess file must be in the project folder

in the localhost every things work fine, but when I upload the whole project my remote server doesn't accept .htaccess files and I get 404 not found (server error not yii error)

there is an alternative to this problem ?

many thanks in advance