infrequent "register_globals is disabled" error -

[speedingmotorcycle]

Hello all!! I have been running a successful oscommerce store for a few months now and need help with a recent problem. I am getting the ole "FATAL ERROR: register_globals is disabled in php.ini, please enable it!" error messages during browsing of any page my site - whether in the storefront or in the backend - but only PART of the time. I would say i see it less than 0.5%, but it is still annoying and unnerving that I see it at all.

 

I have not done any major changes in my site in a while so I don't think i broke anything in the code. A month ago I had a problem with sessions when my hosting company upgraded its PHP and found a fix on the board for it, so I am wondering if this new problem has something to do with the PHP version (or mysql, apache, etc) i am running as well. My server info is as follows:

 

Operating system: Linux

Linux kernel version: 2.4.19-grsec

Apache version: 1.3.27

PERL version: 5.006001

PHP version: PHP/4.3.1 (register_globals is on)

MySQL version: 3.23.56

Oscommerce version: Loaded 4 Snapshot from November 2002.

 

Do any of you have any ideas? Should i upgrade to MS1 (don't want to go through the pain of that yet)? I don't have particularly high traffic on my site so that shouldn't be the issue either - although I am on a shared server.

 

Thanks for your ideas!

Patrick

[Daemonj]

The easiest thing to do would be to add the following line to the .htaccess in your public_html folder.

php_flag register_globals on

[speedingmotorcycle]

ok i just did that. it will take some time for me to see if it works, so if i don't reply here again then assume it did. thanks for your help!