.htaccess magic_quotes_gpc & virtual hosting

fumanshu

I know there's 23 threads regarding magic_quotes_gpc which I have read with interest - one thing that caught my attention was the mention of being able to turn magic_quotes on for particular sites on a virtual host by using .htaccess...

I have tried putting in the following:

php_flag magic_quotes_gpc on

to an already exisiting .htaccess page which deals with .htaccess security but when accessing a page which is covered by .htaccess, an 'internal error' message occurs and page is not viewable.

It would be fantastic if someone can tell me exactly how to use .htaccess to control magic_quotes - they are currently set to 'off' in php.ini and I do not want to change this apart from this one site that requires them on (due to external developer programming site and I can't read his code therefore do not know where to addslashes!!!)

Any advise would of course be appreciated.

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tha_mink

I don't think this is possible. I don't think magic_quotes is an .htaccess directive. You can have your developer use ini_set() to turn the quotes on but I don't think you can do it with .htaccess.

philipolson

Yes, that will work if your host allow for it. Please read:

And, magic_quotes_gpc cannot be set at runtime, .htaccess is as close as you'll get.

fumanshu

OK - so it can be done - but exactly what do i need to add/change to get this to work. I've read the php manual, however i do not find it particularly helpfull to a beginner - perhaps I'm alone on this....

so a) what does my host need to do? &

b) what do i need to do to my site in the .htaccess file?

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in the meantime, I\'ll be researching ini_set().

Thanks in advance...

philipolson

You can't use ini_set(), that would set it at runtime. To quote the manual page:

When using PHP as an Apache module, you can also change the configuration settings using directives in Apache configuration files (e.g. httpd.conf) and .htaccess files (You will need "AllowOverride Options" or "AllowOverride All" privileges)

What you posted will work in .htaccess, as long as your host sets the appropriate AllowOverride privledges. I'd be more specific but I'm not a sysadmin :-)