[Solved: turn off magic_quotes] Annoying auto Backslash addition in template

Dear Modx users,
I am facing a problem in editing template. I am using gedit to edit my template and copy and paste it to template on Modx. When I save the template, it automatically adds backslash to any backslash or quotes. For example, observe the " marks and the \ addition after I save. This breaks my webpage.

Actual document lines:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="EN" lang="EN" dir="ltr">

Lines after saving the template:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd\">

<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\" xml:lang=\"EN\" lang=\"EN\" dir=\"ltr\">


This happens recursively! If I press save button again after saving, it again adds \ to all the existing \ and " in the altered document ( doc that was saved once).

Two days ago I upgraded to evolution recent version and I am observing this since then.
Your help is highly appreciated.
Thank you

That sounds like magic_quotes_gpc in action.

http://php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php

Hi Bob,
thanks for your reply,
Here is my /etc/apache2/php.ini settings. I think I am looking at the right file ..

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = On

; Magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from exec(), etc.
magic_quotes_runtime = Off

; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ’ with ’’ instead of \’).
magic_quotes_sybase = Off


I read that the magic_quotes_gpc is the only one that is on and it is recommended to have it on.
Nonetheless, I switched it to Off but it had no positive effect.

I see the backslash being added to all the documents that I save including chunks, TVs, document editor (CKeditor) etc. For now, I was editing the template in phpmyadmin since there is a table for each template in phpmyadmin. But I could not edit my chunks and TVs there as there are no tables in the database. So, I need to fix this problem before I start developing my site again.

Please let me know what else I could do.
Thank you

Hi Bob..
It worked!! Thanks for pointing out in the right direction. Its working after I restarted apache.
Thanks a LOT!

Glad you got it sorted. Thanks for reporting back.