Dizkus

HI,

I am in the first installation phase and have been struggling with the fact that on my apache web server has magic_quotes_gpc OFF by default. I am hosting more than one Apache-PHP-MySQL site and would prefer to turn on magic_quotes_gpc for just the PostNuke portion.

So far my attempts to place:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc ON
CHMOD check

into a .htaccess file as instructed under the installation guidelines have been unsuccessful. I understood from the instructions that I should place the .htaccess file into the apache root. In my case this is /var/www/htdocs/ .

I am concerned that this is going to negatively impact the other PHP-MySQL driven site because of the potential for applying excessive escape slashes to the other web site.

Is there another location to place the .htaccess file?

Such as /var/www/htdocs/postnuke/html/ ?

The "CHMOD check" is actually part of the next section below on the screen. You supposedly only should put the first line in your .htaccess file. The second line is the header to the next area on the screen.

However, this didn't work for me either. Everything seems to be working, though, so I question whether this is really needed anyway.

Your host might not allow URL rewriting, therefore your htaccess file won't work.

The only thing that would affect the .htaccess from working would be if overrides were disabled. If Mod_Rewrite isn't enabled, that wouldn't affect the .htaccess, just any rewrite rules.
I thought we had gotten past the need for Magic Quotes tho.

Right, it might not, but I could fix that. :wink:

My host is my personal machine, which was built last Sunday and has been running Fedora Core 2 Linux for all of 6 days.

My point was that it doesn't appear to do anything by changing this setting in .htaccess files with the default Apache configuration, and not turning on magic_quotes_gpc doesn't seem to have caused any issues (yet).

BTW, nice avatar! :shock:

Exactly. Not having them enabled doesn't appear to be causing any difficulties. Maybe this should be verified and this warning removed from future installs...