I am trying to use the backquotes to execute a system command, but it says the following message:Warning: Cannot execute using backquotes in safe mode in /home/virtual/site1/fst/var/www/html/test.php on line 9

So.. I guess I need to turn off safe mode. I have no idea how to do this.

Can anyone walk me through? phpinfo() says that my "safe_mode" directive is off for Master Value, but is on for Local Value.

I guess there's a switch somewhere I need to set?

Thanks!

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.safe-mode.php

In php.ini set safe mode to off I believe.

My php.ini already is telling me that safe_mode is off.

This is from my php.ini file:

;
; Safe Mode
;
safe_mode = Off


Does anyone know why the Master Value says off, but the Local Value says it is on?

What does local value mean? How can I set this off?

Thanks!

did you restart?

Apache --- Sorry do not restart the server just restart Apache the service.

The 'master' value is your php.ini , while the 'local' one refers to the directory you are looking at.

Basically you can override/change the local value using a .htaccess

I'd advise you to poke around on the PHP site.

Originally posted by blacknight
The 'master' value is your php.ini , while the 'local' one refers to the directory you are looking at.

Basically you can override/change the local value using a .htaccess

I'd advise you to poke around on the PHP site.

I have confirmed that the php.ini file has safe_mode set to off, and have restarted apache to make sure.

So now I need to find out why the Local Value is set to on..

Is there a way to search all files within a group of directories for the words "safe_mode"? I looked at the .htaccess file for the directory, but couldn't find anything to do with php. I figure maybe I can search for this text and then simply look inside each resulting file to see if it is being set there.

Thanks.

Look at the link fuelguru posted above, read the whole page. That's the answer you need. :)

Originally posted by net-trend
Look at the link fuelguru posted above, read the whole page. That's the answer you need. :)

I must be stupid, then. :confused:

After reading that whole page three times I still can't figure out how to set the Local Value of safe_mode to off. I've looked in php.ini, httpd.conf, .htaccess files and a few other places, but can't find anywhere that has safe_mode set to on.

Can anyone help?

Are you using any sort of hosting control panel?

just add this to the end of the httpd.conf file and restart apache.

<Directory /var/www/html>
php_admin_flag safe_mode off
</Directory>