Forum Subject: Register Globals HELP!!!

Posted on: 07/21/03 03:01pm
By: harbourj

I set up Geeklog on a local server at work and loved it! I absolutely want to use it for a section of my current site but the server\'s register_globals is set to off for security reasons. Is there any way around this? Let me say again how much I want to use GL and moving to another host is not an option. Thanks.

Re:Register Globals HELP!!!

Posted on: 07/21/03 03:12pm
By: Dirk

Your only chance is that they let you override the register_globals setting with a .htaccess file in your webspace. Try creating such a file with this line in it:

php_flag register_globals on

bye, Dirk

Re:Register Globals HELP!!!

Posted on: 09/09/03 01:57pm
By: Anonymous (Al)

But turning \"register_globals\" to ON can be a serious security risk for some servers. Even the PHP people are now shipping the product with the default OFF. I really want to use GL but we won\'t take any risks we don\'t have to. I hope you can fix this soon. I guess it\'s back to phpNuke... which is OK, but over-kill for our needs. Al

Re:Register Globals HELP!!!

Posted on: 09/09/03 05:02pm
By: Dirk

[QUOTE BY= Al] But turning \"register_globals\" to ON can be a serious security risk for some servers.[/QUOTE] Oh please, not that discussion again See here and here for previous coverage. [QUOTE BY= Al]I guess it\'s back to phpNuke...[/QUOTE] *cough* You\'re talking about security and going back to Nuke in the same sentence? bye, Dirk

Re:Register Globals HELP!!!

Posted on: 09/10/03 11:18pm
By: Anonymous (Al)

[QUOTE BY= Dirk] [QUOTE BY= Al] But turning \"register_globals\" to ON can be a serious security risk for some servers.[/QUOTE] Oh please, not that discussion again See here and here for previous coverage. [QUOTE BY= Al]I guess it\'s back to phpNuke...[/QUOTE] *cough* You\'re talking about security and going back to Nuke in the same sentence? bye, Dirk[/QUOTE]

Re:Register Globals HELP!!!

Posted on: 09/12/03 10:53am
By: Limynali

I had been in the same situation where I absolutely could not use global variables. I made a little hack which allowed me to still use geeklog. I hope that can help you.

Re:Register Globals HELP!!!

Posted on: 09/12/03 11:42am
By: Anonymous (al)

Well, I found something very interesting. It seems that my ISP (pair.com) still uses globals=0n. I was surprised. They are going to change this very soon. On our application we need globals OFF for security purposes (long story, don\'t ask.) What we found out we can do is put all of our code in it\'s own directory with it\'s own .htaccess file setting the globals=0ff. We will put GL in the top-level (web root) directory and leave the globals on. We would not care if someone hacked GL. It\'s our own applicaiton that we are concerned with. So this weekend we\'ll give GL a try. It looks a lot easier and less bloated than Nuke. I hope it is as fast (Nuke is way, way, way faster than phpWebSite... a CMS I really like, but phpWS is very slow!) Al