How to disable MB String Input in cpanel 58

Marcel Corzo

• October 15, 2017 00:35

Hi. I'm trying to install a drupal theme in a byehost hosting service, but it says that I have to disable MB String Input: "Multibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.http_input setting. Please refer to the PHP mbstring documentation for more information.". I didn't find the php.ini file. So I found on the cpanel version 58.0.31 the link "alter php config", I found the MB string input set to "auto", I tried to put another value to disable it but it always gets an error "error please try again". I tried the values "0", "off", and always I get the error. Please help me which value can I put here. Thank you very much for your help. Regards, Marcel

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  Marcel Corzo

  • October 15, 2017 05:54

  Hi again. I could changed it with the value "pass". But now I get this error: "Multibyte string output conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.http_output setting. Please refer to the PHP mbstring documentation for more information.". And that variable is not available through my c-panel. How could I change that?

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  rpvw

  • October 15, 2017 08:34

  This used to work, but I haven't tried it for a couple of years....... You could try and add the following to your htaccess file:
  # PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2. php_flag magic_quotes_gpc off php_flag magic_quotes_sybase off php_flag register_globals off php_flag session.auto_start off php_value mbstring.http_input pass php_value mbstring.http_output pass php_flag mbstring.encoding_translation off
  If that doesn't work, I suggest you ask your web host for help in changing the PHP ini settings for your site.

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  cPWilliamL

  • October 16, 2017 16:32

  Hi Marcel, How you go about disabling this differs depending on your PHP handler and on your EasyApache version. If using CGI or suPHP as your PHP handler, try adding the following to a `.user.ini' file in your domain's document root:
  mbstring.http_input = pass
  You should also be able to confirm via a phpinfo page to ensure the drupal theme is accurately reporting the mbstring directive settings: PHP: phpinfo - Manual

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