---
title: "OsCommerce register_globals error"
description: "When installing OsCommerce for the first time you may receive this error: Server Requirement Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration. This can be enabled in your php.ini..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/oscommerce/oscommerce-registerglobals-error/
date: 2011-08-26
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "Carrie Smaha"
categories: ["OsCommerce"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# OsCommerce register_globals error

When [installing OsCommerce](/support/edu/oscommerce/softaculous-install/) for the first time you may receive this error:

**Server Requirement Error: register_globals is disabled in your PHP configuration. This can be enabled in your php.ini configuration file or in the .htaccess file in your catalog directory.**

To enable register_globals for your account, you will need to [edit the **.htaccess **file](/support/website/how-to-edit-a-file/) in your OsCommerce root directory. There should already be an .htaccess in there, and you should just have to comment out these lines (may vary per version)

php_value register_globals 1
If you are on a PHP 5 server, you should change mod_php4.c to mod_php5.c. If you do not have an .htaccess in your OsCommerce directory, you can simply create one and insert the above lines.