OT: On-Rev issue (non-emergency)

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks Matthias, and thanks also to Shawn Beagle who contacted me off list.

I am frankly too scared to follow these instructions: the editor suggests I make a back up before editing anything, and I don’t really know how to do the restore. As a LiveCode person and very much not a server person I have a very strong feeling of not being in Kansas any more. So I guess I will have to wait for On-Rev support to wake up.

My nervousness is not helped by the fact that I don’t seem to have files like php.ini or .htaccess within the files I can see on the server. There is a htaccess.txt file but that belongs to Joomla which is the package telling me to turn off Magic Quotes - so why can’t it do the job itself? Confusion.

Sorry to be a scaredy-cat, but for all I know I could start World War 3 by hitting the wrong part of some file. 

Graham


> On 31 Mar 2015, at 19:38, Matthias Rebbe <matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de> wrote:
> 
> Graham,
> 
> you could try to disable it using an .htaccess file which is put into the root folder of your domain.
> 
> Please add the following line to the .htaccess files
> php_flag magic_quotes_gpc Off
> 
> If this does not work you could use a php.ini file to disable it.
> 
> See the first example at http://php.net/manual/de/security.magicquotes.disabling.php <http://php.net/manual/de/security.magicquotes.disabling.php>
> 
> 
> But to use a php.ini with custom php settings you will have to modify the .htaccess file in your public_html folder.
> 
> Please add the following to the .htaccess file in the public_html folder.
> 
> suPHP_ConfigPath /home/YOURACCOUNTNAME/public_html/
> <Files php.ini> 
> order allow,deny 
> deny from all 
> </Files>
> 
> Please replace YOURACCOUNTNAME in the above line with your account name.
> 
> This will make sure your custom settings in the php.ini are recognized by the server.
> 
> If this all does not work i would say you should open an emergency support ticket, as the above described solutions should work on their servers. 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
>> Am 31.03.2015 um 16:34 schrieb Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com>:
>> 
>> Sorry to be OT, but I can’t describe my need for On-Rev support to be an emergency, yet I am completely stuck until I get help and I have not had a squeak out of On-Rev support since asking a question on 28th March; and my attempts to join the forum have not worked so far, as nobody has activated my account.
>> 
>> Since many on this list have On-Rev accounts, maybe someone can enlighten me. I want to change Magic Quotes GPC to ‘Off’. I need this for an installation process. As there’s nothing relevant that I can see in the cPanel and I have no real idea what this means, I need someone to tell me how to do it or to do it for me.
>> 
>> If anyone can help, thanks. If not I’ll just wait for the folks at On-Rev to catch up.
>> 
>> Graham
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