Drush installation problem - Non-empty values for magic_quotes_gpc

Question

I have successfully installed and configured Drush and i am able to work with it.

Unfortunately, I am getting an error like this:

The following restricted PHP modes have non-empty values: magic_quotes_gpc. This configuration is incompatible with drush.

I have tried this

magic_quotes_gpc = Off
magic_quotes_runtime = Off
magic_quotes_sybase = Off

in my php.ini and still I am getting the error. What could be the reason? How can I fix this?

Answer 1

Be sure you are editing the right php.ini file. As far as I recall the file used from PHP CLI could be different from the one used from PHP when running as Apache module; plus, Drush could use a completely different file, basing on its options, or settings.

To see which php.ini file Drush is using, use drush status. Drush can use a php.ini file that is saved in the $HOME/.drush, or /etc/drush directory; it can also use a drush.ini file present in the same directories. Alternatively, the path of a php.ini, or drush.ini file to use are taken respectively from the PHP_INI, and DRUSH_INI environment variables. (See the content of the README.txt file for more information.)

The function that checks the PHP settings in the php.ini file is _drush_environment_check_php_ini(), which contains the following code.

  // Test to insure that certain php ini restrictions have not been enabled
  $prohibited_list = array();
  foreach ($ini_checks as $prohibited_mode => $disallowed_value) {
    $ini_value = ini_get($prohibited_mode);
    $invalid_value = FALSE;
    if (empty($disallowed_value)) {
      $invalid_value = !empty($ini_value);
    }
    else {
      foreach ($disallowed_value as $test_value) {
        if (strstr($ini_value, $test_value) !== FALSE) {
          $invalid_value = TRUE;
        }
      }
    }
    if ($invalid_value) {
      $prohibited_list[] = $prohibited_mode;
    }
  }

On my computer, the directive for which the error message is reported is set with the following line.

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

When I execute dpm(ini_get('magic_quotes_gpc')); I get 0 as output.

Answer 2

Here is how i managed to fix it.

Go to drush/includes/environment.inc

Changed the line 91 from

$ini_checks = array('safe_mode' => '', 'open_basedir' => '', 
'disable_functions' => array('exec', 'system'), 'disable_classes' => '', 
'magic_quotes_gpc' => '', 'magic_quotes_runtime' => '');

to

$ini_checks = array('safe_mode' => '', 'open_basedir' => '', 
'disable_functions' => array('exec', 'system'));

Answer 3

As your path suggests you are using PHP 5.4.4. and since PHP 5.4.0 the magic quotes are removed, so you should not even have this settings in you php.ini.

Try to comment them out and see if it helps.

Source: http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.magicquotes.php

Answer 4

I had to make sure to put the following in my ~/.drush/drush.ini file.

magic_quotes_gpc = 0

instead of

magic_quotes_gpc = Off

Answer 5

While I know this is old and has been answered by some people, I have just installed the beta2 of Drush 6 and no longer have this issue.

pear channel-discover pear.drush.org
pear install drush/drush
pear install drush/drush-6.0.0

See http://drupal.org/project/drush for more info.

Answer 6

I know this is an old question. I was trying to setup Drupal 7.28 with Drush and facing same issue on my GoDaddy hosting. This is what I found and how I solved it:

Found:

GoDaddy uses /web/config/php.ini which has set magic_quotes_gpc = On. Even when I switch between PHP 5.2 and 5.3 cli, it uses same .ini.

Did not work:

1. Overwriting magic_quotes_gpc = Off, alsomagic_quotes_gpc = 0 in /drush.ini, but still same error

2. Copied /web/config/php.ini to ~/html/drush-cli-php.ini (~/html is web root in GoDaddy), commented out/removed magic_quotes_gpc statement, and used php command:

   php -c ~/html/drush-cli-php.ini
   

   to make php use this new ini. drush uses this php. But php -i still showed /web/config/php.ini was the first config file.

What worked:

Now I explicitly coded magic_quotes_gpc = Off in ~html/drush-cli-php.ini, and viola, it worked! This was the only parameter I coded in this ini, btw.

What I observed was, if the magic_quotes_gpc was overwritten to Off in drush.ini, it didn't work, possibly because the validation failure in drush happens before the override.

Hope this helps somebody. :)

Answer 7

I know this old post but what remove the error message for me was commenting out the "disable_functions =" in the "Language Options"