[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8757: Upgrade or install 2.7 clean urls defect with magic quotes

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#8757: Upgrade or install 2.7 clean urls defect with magic quotes
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 Reporter:  matthijs      |       Owner:  ryan               
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new                
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  2.7.1              
Component:  Permalinks    |     Version:  2.7                
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  rewrite, clean urls
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 When [[BR]]

 a) in the PHP settings both magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase
 are set to ON, [[BR]]
 b) upgrading from a previous (working) 2.6.5 version or installing a new
 version

 The clean urls functionality is lost.

 The bug is that in the wp_options the field rewrite_rules will then
 contain a wrong value: for example:
 a:304:{s:12:"robots.txt$"; // etc etc

 changing this manually in the database to

 a:304:{s:11:"robots.txt$";

 will temporarily solve the bug, until a save is done in the permalinks.
 Then again this value gets the wrong value.

 Setting magic_quotes_runtime and magic_quotes_sybase to Off also solves
 the issue. But my guess is that most people encountering this problem will
 not know that or might even not be able to change this setting (shared
 hosts). It might be better to check in the wordpress code to see how these
 PHP settings are and code accordingly

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