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#16485 Magic Quotes issues

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 28 June 2013 04:56 CDT

Thursday, 20 June 2013 08:10 CDT

amorim

PHP Version 5.3.23
Admin Tools version: 2.5.5

Description of my issue: My host has turned magic_quotes_gpc off. The system information inside Joomla (inside root www-folder) confirms this.
phpinfo.php for root confirms this, too.

So far so good.

I have a subfolder with another Joomla installation, a blog: domain.com/blog

Interestingly, for this subfolder Joomla and phpinfo.php both tell me that magic_quotes_gpc is turned ON!!! I haven't figured out how this could be. Do you have an idea?

But here to the part that concerns AdminTools. I read that I can fix this easily by adding the line "php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off" to my .htacess file. Will AdminTools let me do it and is it okay to do it?

Thanks.

Thursday, 20 June 2013 11:41 CDT

nicholas

First check if there is a php.ini file in the site inside the subdirectory and its administrator directory. If the magic_quotes_gpc flag exists in those files make sure it's set to off or 0. If such files do not exist you can probably(*) use the .htaccess Maker and the line you mentioned. Just place it in the "Custom .htaccess rules at the bottom of the file" area.

* I say "probably" because this trick only works if your host is running PHP in CGI / FastCGI mode. If your host is running PHP as an Apache module (a.k.a. "DSO") this trick will not work and you'll have to talk to your host. That said, there's a 90% chance that what you're about to do will actually work on your server.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

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Friday, 28 June 2013 04:53 CDT

amorim

Sorry, didn't get any email notification and so saw this just today. Yes, it works with the php.ini files inside both folders.

Thank you and have a good weekend!

Friday, 28 June 2013 04:56 CDT