the problem is with your host. not all hosting service providers are compatible with dolphin. so even once you get this issue resolved, either with a php.ini setting or some other means, i am not sure that you are going to have a good experience with dolphin on this host.
please notify your hosting service provider, as it has been determined that having allow_url_include in the ON state is a security isssue:
allow_url_include and allow_url_fopen allow a huge number of web attacks to be successful. Many websites get hacked because they have PHP vulnerabilities. If those sites had been using allow_url_include = Off, or the more general allow_url_fopen = Off, many of those hacks would NOT have been successful even if the underlying vulnerability were not fixed.
If you have PHP5 or earlier, you unfortunately cannot turn them off in .htaccess. It has to be done in php.ini. If your host doesn't allow you to have a php.ini file, then there's no way to turn them off. You just have to live with whatever settings the host provides.
In php.ini, the correct command is:
allow_url_fopen = Off
In PHP5.2 or greater, you can also use this:
allow_url_include = Off
If you could do it with .htaccess in PHP5, the correct commands would be:
php_flag allow_url_fopen Off
php_flag allow_url_include Off
If you have PHP6 or higher, the above commands should work in .htaccess.
In PHP 5.2.6, you cannot set those two variables in .htaccess. You must use php.ini:
Create a text file called: php.ini with these 2 lines in it:
allow_url_fopen = Off
allow_url_include = Off
Put php.ini in the top folder of your website, the same folder where your .htaccess file and your website's home page are.
Then run phpinfo().
so basically you have to do this in .htaccess or php.ini depending on your servers setup, and quite frankly, i would send a support ticket to your hosting service, and ask them to take care of this for you.
but you do not have an install problem per se' you have a server configuration/script compatibility problem
dolphin installs and runs just fine on a machine that is setup to run dolphin.
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