Your php.ini file is the core configuration file for PHP on your server.  Usually the default settings work fine, but there are some tweaks that may improve your performance.  Here are a couple of pointers to working with your php.ini file.

Working with php.ini

1) Changes you make to the php.ini file do not become effective until you reboot apache.  If you dont' know how to reboot apache, you can use a program like putty to ssh into your server and use a command line apache reboot like:  apachectl restart

2) There are two types of php settings 'LOCAL' and 'GLOBAL'.  You may make changes to the php.ini file only to realize that within a specific program, the setting is not the same.  That's because the script you are using is setting it's own 'LOCAL' setting which is overriding the php.ini 'GLOBAL' setting.  When there is not a LOCAL setting, the GLOBAL setting will take precedence.

3) If you don't have access to your php.ini file, you can make most changes on a per directory basis by using a .htaccess file.  Your server reads the .htaccess file to apply any configuration settings you might want to include on a per directory basis.

H! there

I opened the notepad, inserted 3 lines in it, saved it as php.ini, and uploaded it in public_html, but I am still getting an error that requires to first switch the magic quotes off. The syntax of the three lines is as following:

magic_quotes_gpc = 0
magic_quotes_runtime = 0
magic_quotes_sybase = 0

Can you tell me what the hell is the problem?

Thanks

your php.ini file will need a lot more information than those three lines. If you are on a linux based system it is not located in your public html folder, it might be in this path: /etc/php.ini . You would want to modify the setting that already exists in this file. Alternatively you can add your commands to an .htaccess file in the root directly of the application and they will override your global php.ini definitions.

admin wrote:your php.ini file will need a lot more information than those three lines.  If you are on a linux based system it is not located in your public html folder, it might be in this path: /etc/php.ini  .  You would want to modify the setting that already exists in this file.  Alternatively you can add your commands to an .htaccess file in the root directly of the application and they will override your global php.ini definitions.

Er... the problem has been solved... sorry... I should have posted here. Actually, when I would open the directory, which would take me to the index file, would actually redirect the URL, to another directory. So, it was THIS directory I had to put the php.ini. Only it took some time to take my attention.

Thanks