FATAL ERROR: register_globals is disabled in php.ini

[Marko]

Hi I am new to PHP, OSCOMMERCE, MYSQL and Apache.

I am running WIn2000 I have successfully set up Apache, PHP and MYSQL.

I have created my database and assigned the user as per the new oscomerce doco. In the doco it says to open a browser and run the install http://localhost/catalog/install/index.php However, I am getting the following error here.

FATAL ERROR: register_globals is disabled in php.ini, please enable it!

I did a search on this file and found the follwing three files. I changed each of these files register_globals parameter to = on (Previously they where set to = OFF). There was a security warning for the implication of this.

php.ini-dist
php.ini-recommended
php.ini.conf


I re-started the server and tried again, still the same problem.

Questions.
Is this related to permissions? If so I must have done something wrong here. COuld someone explain how to properly set the permissions. I understand CHMOD are unix commands. I have checked the permissions from windows explorer/security and nothing seems to jump out (I have everything set to "Allow".


Any advice would be appreciated.

Many thanks,

Mark

[MahmoodDar]

HIya Marko

Your getting the error message because register_global is disabled in
" php.ini " file.

You can locate the file :

C:\Windows\php.ini

Open php.ini in any text editor program and look for this section

;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
; Data Handling ;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

/---

Some other codes ....

; You should do your best to write your scripts so that they do not require
; register_globals to be on; Using form variables as globals can easily lead
; to possible security problems, if the code is not very well thought of.
register_globals = Off


--/

You will see " register_globals = Off " set to Off , just replace that with

register_globals = On

And your set to go

[Marko]

Thanks heaps,

I'm back on track.

Marko