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Latest post by nicholas on Thursday, 07 March 2013 06:00 CST

Thursday, 07 March 2013 04:55 CST

user47161

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? yes
Joomla! version: (2.5.9)
PHP version: (5.3.22)
MySQL version: (5.1.68-cll)
Host: (hauserhof-goldberg.at)
Admin Tools version: (2.5.2)

Description of my issue:

Warning: parse_ini_file() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/goldberg/public_html/media/akeeba_strapper/strapper.php on line 88

Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, null given in /home/goldberg/public_html/media/akeeba_strapper/strapper.php on line 91

 These 2 warnings appeare when trying to update as well after updating Admin Tools. Additional Info: yesterday this site was "Haxed By xConsoLe". Provider restored it from Backup and now I see that Joomla and Admintools were not uptodate, so I experienced these 2 warning when trying to update AdminToools.  

Thursday, 07 March 2013 05:21 CST

nicholas

Warning: parse_ini_file() has been disabled for security reasons in /home/goldberg/public_html/media/akeeba_strapper/strapper.php on line 88

This means your server is incompatible with Joomla! 2.5.0 and later. Please contact your host and ask them to allow this function. The function they SHOULD have disabled is called ini_set(). parse_ini_file is used to read INI data and has no security implications. ini_set() is used to modify core PHP configuration variables and does have security implications. By disabling the wrong function your host didn't mitigate security implications, it merely inconveniences its users.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Thursday, 07 March 2013 05:55 CST

user47161

thank you. We had a custom php.ini file under public_html folder where parse_ini_file function was disabled. We removed that line. No idea why and how this came into custom php.ini file :(

Would be great if there were any tool that could check server configuration settings and if they were perfect for joomla performance and security. 

Thursday, 07 March 2013 06:00 CST

nicholas

Joomla! will add that feature in the next versions of the CMS, so there's no need for me to do so :)

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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