bracked

Yes, I followed those steps specific to siteground. After I set the variable for auto_prepend_file it would appear correctly set but did nothing until I added the PHPRC line. Once I added the PHPRC line extended protection became enabled but I had multiple PHP errors appearing on my site and I couldn’t access certain Admin panel areas like plugin configuration and editing posts. A Tier 3 Siteground support person rolled my site back to PHP 5 and all the errors cleared up instantly.

In hindsight I don’t know the root cause, but after a few days of troubleshooting I’m glad it’s behind me.

Looks like the issue was running php 7.x. Rolling back to 5.6 fixed the problem.

After some investigation I found I needed to add a line to my .htaccess file:

SetEnv PHPRC /<PATH_TO_WEBSITE_ROOT>/php.ini

The problem though, is when this directive is enabled I get php errors appearing on the site, and some parts of the admin panel stop working.

Any ideas?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 2 months ago by bracked.