Drupal Error – Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons

20 Feb 25

Your Drupal powered website may start showing following error message:

Warning: ini_set() has been disabled for security reasons

Cause of error message

Your hosting provider has disabled PHP function ini_set() on server. This is generally done to increase server security. Some server security expert highly recommend to disable ini_set() on servers.

Solution #1

Contact your hosting provider and ask them to enable ini_set() on the server.

Solution #2

  • Create a blank php.ini file in public_html folder

  • Add following code and save the file.

disabled_funcions =

If above code do not work try following code:

extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so

If above code also do not work try this code:

disabled_funcions =
extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so