how switch register globals off

Question

Hi, my web hosting has the register globals on and I need to turn it off, when using a .htaccess with the following code in the root directory

php_flag register_globals off

I get the following error

Internal Server Error, this is an error with your script, check your error log for more  information.

any ideas please.

Answer 1

Not sure, but I think you have to put off in quotes:

php_flag register_globals "off"

Could be wrong here though, haven't done this for a long long time ;)

PS: This belongs on serverfault, doesn't it?

PPS: The PHP Documentation says that the default value is "0", including the quotes. Maybe off has been deprecated in recent versions.

Answer 2

Try removing the .htaccess file and placing a php.ini file in its place with register_globals = Off in it.

The 500 server error from a .htaccess file points to php being run as a CGI rather than an Apache Module

Answer 3

most likely your host is not allowing that setting in .htaccess files. If you have a php file that is always included you can turn it off there

ini_set('register_globals', false);

Answer 4

If worse comes to worse and you can not disable it, try this psuedo code

• Loop through all superglobals
• If $var = $_SUPERGLOB[$var] then unset()