[support] Strange characters in source of block

[Jamie Holly]

That's really funny. I've updated quiet a few servers from CentOS 5 to 
CentOS 6 that run Drupal and this hasn't happened. Yeah BlueHost is 
blowing smoke big time.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net


On 5/1/2012 1:47 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Anthony<tony at tony-mac.com>  wrote:
> >  Bluehost mail to me
> >  "Hi,
> >  It is a drupal problem in the fact that drupal was written to work on a
> >  centos environment and that a change from centos 5 to centos 6 results in
> >  the problems you experienced.
> >  Its a known bug with drupal and yes, we did make the upgrade, but it is
> >  still a drupal issue with the centos 6 environment.
> >
> >  You have two options to stop the escape characters from being inserted:
> >
> >  1. Change to PHP 5.3 and update your Drupal installation to the most recent
> >  version.  This can be done in the PHP Config section of the cPanel.
> >  Simply click on the radio button to the left of PHP 5.3 or PHP 5.3 Single
> >  (depending on which php.ini behavior you prefer) and then save the changes.
> >
> >  2. You may also disable magic_quotes_gpc in the php.ini.
> >  This is done by finding the php.ini that applies to your Drupal installation
> >  in the File Manager, and Editing it.
> >  Once inside, search (the ctrl+f find function is recommended) for the line
> >  magic_quotes_gpc=On and set this variable to magic_quotes_gpc=Off
> >
> >  Here is a thread on the drupal forums themselves that goes more into detail
> >  about the problem and some fixes: http://drupal.org/node/1437998
> >  "
>
> Just as I thought, the forum entry you note proves to me that BlueHost
> is blowing smoke.  The issue is really that PHP has the bug.  There
> are two workarounds.  The best being updating php.ini file.  The
> second being removing the php_flag magic_quotes_gpc setting in
> .htaccess.  Also note that PHP 5.4 no longer has this setting.
>