Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

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Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by spock9458 » Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:29 pm

I am running Joomla 3.1 in a test environment, and just installed the upgrade to version 3.1.5. Now in the Admin back end I have an error on every page at the top, with a pink background, that says:

Error

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

I have checked with my host, and I have verified by running a phpinfo() file, all settings for magic quotes say "Off".

How do I fix this problem? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
Last edited by spock9458 on Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by brian » Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:42 pm

On many hosts they turn off magic quotes with a local php.INI file but this needs to be done on every directory on some server configurations. It looks like this is what your hosts have done. You can confirm this by putting the phpinfo file in the /administrator folder.
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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by spock9458 » Fri Aug 02, 2013 3:47 pm

You were exactly right, Brian. I uploaded the php.ini file they had provided for me, to the administrator directory, and the error message has disappeared. Thanks for your help.

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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by brian » Fri Aug 02, 2013 4:22 pm

Glad to have helped. I wish host would get a clue though and disable it properly
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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by sgriesbach » Mon Aug 12, 2013 4:46 am

yes thank you! this fixes the problem on Hostgator dedicated server

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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by K2a » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:06 pm

Hi! I am a beginner I encounter the same problem, I would like to know where to find the php.ini file should I ask my hosting provider?
thank you for help me

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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by brian » Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:10 pm

Ask your hosting provider the best way to disable magic quotes in THEIR server. There are many ways to do it and YOUR hosting provider can do this best for you.
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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by ozneilau » Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:00 am

brian wrote:On many hosts they turn off magic quotes with a local php.INI file but this needs to be done on every directory on some server configurations. It looks like this is what your hosts have done. You can confirm this by putting the phpinfo file in the /administrator folder.
Thanks Brian, this helped me too! :)

Rather than copy the php.ini to the /administrator folder, you can add a line to your .htaccess file like this:

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SetENV PHPRC /home/[account-name]/public_html
(or something similar depending on the folder structure on the server) so the php.ini settings apply to your whole website.

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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by ozneilau » Wed Mar 11, 2015 9:03 am

You may be able to disable magic quotes via your hosting control panel. Look for "PHP Settings" or similar.

Or ask your hosting company.

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Re: Joomla 3.1.5 Error RE: Magic Quotes

Post by bhaumik » Fri Oct 23, 2015 5:27 am

Thanks a lot brian :) , your following trick did worked for me.

On many hosts they turn off magic quotes with a local php.INI file but this needs to be done on every directory on some server configurations. It looks like this is what your hosts have done. You can confirm this by putting the phpinfo file in the /administrator folder.


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