Thank you for the assistance.
Most likely in the messages above this, there is something about PHP being in safe mode. (The installer asks that you post the complete output when seeking help; this is so that instead of guessing what your problem is, we have a better chance of being able to tell for sure.)
NP, sorry about that, here it is, but everything else appears to be fine up until that stage.
# PHP 4.3.9: ok # PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) # Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. # PHP's memory_limit is 8M. If this is too low, installation may fail! Attempting to raise limit to 20M... ok. # Have zlib support; enabling output compression. # Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. # Installation directory: /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/httpdocs/masa # Script URI path: /masa Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure Can't find a writable temp directory for the XHTML template. Check that the TMP environment variable points to a writable directory, or that the default temp dir (/tmp) exists and is writable.
Safe mode (and also some related options) can make it pretty much impossible for a PHP script to access the /tmp directory.
PHP safe mode is off, since I needed that for Gallery in the same domain.
I can provide the appropriate PHP configuration info if that helps.
They attempted to ensure that apache had access etc to the tmp directory, as indicated in the email that I provided the URL for in the first post.
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