Turning magic quotes off

A lot of software now is requiring that "magic quotes" be switched off as it presents a security risk, system wide we are keeping it enabled for a period of time to support legacy software that is not ready for this change.

However, you can update it in your own hosting account by adding the following line to your php.ini in your public_html (this will disable magic quotes for your whole domain):

; Magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data.
magic_quotes_gpc = Off


Because we also run suPHP for server security you will also need to tell your domain where this php.ini file is, edit/create the .htaccess file in your public_html directory and add the following line:

suPHP_ConfigPath /home/USERNAME/public_html/

(replacing USERNAME with your cPanel username)

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