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Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

all4webdesign — Dec 23, 2012, 12:16 PM

Hi Susan

I tried this one, but as written in Dave's Blog it is only working with php 5.2 and not php 5.3. I will screw this hosting company...

Quote from: sottwell at Dec 23, 2012, 05:57 PM

Here's a solution http://davidchu.net/blog/2012/01/fixed-modx-evo-site-running-namecheap-hosting/

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

sottwell — Dec 23, 2012, 11:57 AM

Here's a solution http://davidchu.net/blog/2012/01/fixed-modx-evo-site-running-namecheap-hosting/

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

sottwell — Dec 23, 2012, 11:55 AM

Ah, sorry. If neither of the directives work in the .htaccess, and adding a custom php.ini in the /manager/ folder didn't work, then unless you can change hosting you'll have to figure out a plugin or something similar to remove the extraneous slashes.

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

all4webdesign — Dec 23, 2012, 11:53 AM

I know this, the provider told me on the phone that they will not change the settings! So do I have to change the provider and take the site to a new hoster?

here the link to the phpinfo: http://www.rusterholtz.ch/phpinfo.php

Quote from: sottwell at Dec 23, 2012, 05:48 PM

You can check its value in the Manager in Reports, System Info, and the phpinfo link. Scroll down a bit in the PHP Core section, and you should see that magic_quotes_gpc has a local value of "off", and the master value is "on".

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

sottwell — Dec 23, 2012, 11:48 AM

You can check its value in the Manager in Reports, System Info, and the phpinfo link. Scroll down a bit in the PHP Core section, and you should see that magic_quotes_gpc has a local value of "off", and the master value is "on".

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

all4webdesign — Dec 23, 2012, 11:47 AM

No it is green.ch and they don't want to downgrade to php 5.2 or set the setting to off. What can I do?

Quote from: sottwell at Dec 23, 2012, 05:44 PM

Are you talking about Nextron? I have a long-time client with them, and I see they've upgraded and magic_quotes_gpc is on, so it's probably them.

I added the line
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
to the .htaccess, and it did the trick.

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

sottwell — Dec 23, 2012, 11:44 AM

Are you talking about Nextron? I have a long-time client with them, and I see they've upgraded and magic_quotes_gpc is on, so it's probably them.

I added the line

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off

to the .htaccess, and it did the trick.

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

all4webdesign — Dec 23, 2012, 11:32 AM

Hi Susan

Thanks for your help, both ways not working at all.

The .htaccess solution gave me a "500 internal server error" and the php.ini solution didn't change the situation with the backslashes...

Maybe I have to change the hosting company, by the way this is the biggest in Switzerland!!!

Any other solutions?
Thanks
Markus

Quote from: sottwell at Dec 22, 2012, 12:43 PM

You can try either of the following directives in the .htaccess file:
php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
php_value magic_quotes_gpc Off
If those don't work, you can try putting a php.ini file in the /manager/ directory with the directive:
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
The ironic thing about this is that the setting is removed altogether in PHP 5.4

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

sottwell — Dec 22, 2012, 06:43 AM

You can try either of the following directives in the .htaccess file:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
php_value magic_quotes_gpc Off

If those don't work, you can try putting a php.ini file in the /manager/ directory with the directive:

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

The ironic thing about this is that the setting is removed altogether in PHP 5.4

Re: How to set magic-quotes_gpc to off when hosting provider will not set it off?

frogabog — Dec 22, 2012, 05:29 AM

Wow, that sucks. Time to look at other options.

How long do you have till the auction? Here's a thought...

A quick move might be worth the effort. Try MODX Cloud for 15 days, move the site to a dev cloud and show the client how simple it can be. Then move to a new production cloud.

Setting up a standard server might be a lot of work with your time frame in mind, but it wouldn't be with cloud. Email would take some extra time though.