I am running an ecommerce theme on wordpress on a hostgator server, and coming up with this error.
Security warning: set the value *register_globals* in the php ini to Off !! This theme will not work correctly otherwise.
I can't find the php.ini in any of the folders. I tried creating a file with the added command and putting it in root as suggested via google, with no luck.
Any recommendations?otherwise.
You will have to open a support ticket with hostgator and ask if they can change it. php.ini is a configuration file that you likely don't have access to.
It might be possible to locally change the register_globals file, but I am not aware of a way to do that.
The file you should put in your root folder is not php.ini, but .htaccess. Be sure it contains this line:
php_flag register_globals off
If that still doesn't work or generates a 500 Internal Server Error then you'll have to contact HostGator and see what they say.