Error "Safe Mode is turned on for PHP" though Safe Mode is off

The results of requesting the safe_mode setting are returning a 1, which is on. Can you please post a link to your phpinfo output? If you like, you can send it via my contact form at shanebishop.net instead.

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I wonder if it has something to do with the options that your PHP was compiled with. If you look at them, –enable-safe-mode is listed, which means (according to the PHP site) that safe mode is enabled by default. That may override anything that is in your .ini files. I’ve never seen it enabled at that level before, so I’m not sure of the ramifications. Perhaps you just need to explicitly set it in your php.ini to Off. I noticed on my dev server, that safe_mode isn’t even listed in my php.ini, so that is a definite possibility, because it would mean that it could show as Off in the phpinfo at the server level, and the local level, but if it isn’t explicity configured to be off in the php.ini, and it was enabled at compile time, then it will default to On. Hope that makes sense, and gets you in the right direction.

Thank you very much for your time.
Would the EWWW cloud be able to work with this server configuration, since the optimization is done in the cloud and not on our server?

Yes, the EWWW IO Cloud works on any server, and any platform.

I’m posting here the solution, maybe it will help someone else.

The problem was though safe_mode was set to off, the plugin reported safe_mode as on. I found that there were several php.ini files throughout public_html that either explicitly disabled safe_mode again, or set other parameters that were already set. By deleting these extra php.ini files, the errors disappeared and EWWW started working. Not sure what the explanation is, but it worked.