Thanks for the replies.

It turned out that my new account at bluehost.com was hosted on a mchine with PHP4. The mediawiki 1.9.1 install script was incorrectly detecting PHP5.0 but correctly telling me that I needed PHP5.1

Bluehost.com advertise "PHP4 or 5 - your choice" and it seems like you get PHP4 unless you ask for 5 in which case you get transferred to a machine with 5.1 in just a few hours and the mediawiki1.9 is up and running :-)

Next job is to sort out shorter URLS.

On 28/01/07, Ashar Voultoiz hashar@altern.org wrote:

Andy Roberts wrote:

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Has anybody installed mediawiki 1.9 on a bluehost.com account yet?

The install script is telling me "PHP 5.0.x is buggy on your 64-bit system; you must upgrade to PHP 5.1.x or higher. ABORTING. (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34879 for details)

so I've opened a support ticket requesting PHP5.1x

Meanwhile, or if they don't want to upgrade I wonder what workarounds may be available.

Get a new host :)

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