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#17746 Joomla3 and magic quotes on

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Latest post by alexwalker on Friday, 11 October 2013 11:14 CDT

Thursday, 03 October 2013 05:33 CDT

alexwalker
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: 3.1.5
PHP version: 5.3.27
MySQL version: 5.0.96-community
Host: hosthere.co.uk
Admin Tools version: 2.5.8

Description of my issue:

I have successfully installed Joomla3 and now I need to turn magic quotes back on.
Can I use admintools htaccess creator to turn magic quotes on or has this to be done by my web host ?

Error
Your host needs to disable magic_quotes_gpc to run this version of Joomla!

Thursday, 03 October 2013 06:35 CDT

alexwalker
Sorry I meant to say turn magic quotes OFF not ON !!!

Thursday, 03 October 2013 08:29 CDT

nicholas
No, this has to be done by your host.

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!

Friday, 11 October 2013 08:57 CDT

alexwalker
Nicholas
I added this as a custom htaccess rule:

<IfModule mod_suphp.c>
suPHP_ConfigPath /home/allanaab/public_html/joomla3
<Files php.ini>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
</IfModule>

and also added this php.ini file at the root

magic_quotes_gpc = Off
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so

and this resolved this issue.

Friday, 11 October 2013 10:50 CDT

nicholas
Correct. If your host is using the PHP CGI binary (suPHP does use PHP CGI) you can do that. Most modern servers have stopped using the now deprecated suPHP solution in favour of PHP in FastCGI mode in conjunction with FPM (FastCGI Process Manager). This is a solution equally safe as suPHP and much faster. The downside of FPM is that PHP configuration has to be performed in your php.ini as the whole point of FastCGI is having the PHP binary preloaded in memory*, something which precludes on-the-fly configuration with per-directory php.ini files or directives in .htaccess.

* Technically it's the PHP processing engine being preloaded in idle threads which can be reused, but for the intent of giving you an idea of what is going on the simplistic explanation that the "PHP binary is preloaded in memory" is not very far from the truth.

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!

Friday, 11 October 2013 11:14 CDT

alexwalker
Nicholas, please change your English language rating from Good to Excellent, because I didn't understand a word of what you said, but can only believe that what you said is true !!! ;)

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