Thread:Project:Support desk/"MediaWiki does not function when magic quotes are enabled" error with magic quotes disabled

Upgrading from 1.12 to 1.24.1 and I'm receiving

"Exception from line 61 of /public_html/wiki/includes/WebRequest.php: MediaWiki does not function when magic quotes are enabled.

Backtrace:


 * 1) 0 /public_html/wiki/includes/Setup.php(544): WebRequest->__construct
 * 2) 1 /public_html/wiki/includes/WebStart.php(121): require_once(string)
 * 3) 2 /public_html/wiki/mw-config/index.php(36): require(string)
 * 4) 3 {main}"

when I attempt to run mw-config/index.php. Magic quotes are off in the php.ini.

Trying to go to the main index just gives a "Fatal exception of type MWException".

I'm running PHP 5.3.27, if that makes a difference, and I've read and tried everything I could find, but I'm not sure what all I can do with only FTP and web access.

Thanks for any advice you can offer.