php safe mode on - php safe mode off

[directoryguy]

Hello all :

Quick question - have been running a script/program in safe mode for some time - looking at turning off safe mode [temporarily] so that I can look closer at the server load etc. then turning safe mode back on ...

Are there any suggestions - concerns - cautions that I should be aware of in doing this?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts / suggestions

[eelixduppy]

Hello,

By disabling safe mod you are allowing the once disable functions [php.net] to be used. This can lead to a few security issues, especially if you run a shared hosting site. Read up about the safe mode directives and information [us2.php.net] are you will get a sense at what you are allowing the server to do once safe mode is disabled.

[directoryguy]

Right Got it! - Thanks ...

So if this I am only going to "safe mode off" temporarily ...
and then change back - are then any "legacy" issues or other that I need to be concerned with?

Or should I say - once that I change it back - everything should be as it was before?

and then I would only have to be "concerned" etc during the time I have chosen to have safe mode off?

Hope that makes sense :)

[eelixduppy]

Yup; once you change the setting back to what you have it now, everything will be back to normal. :)