On Nov 19, 2004, at 5:42 PM, Thiago F.G. Albuquerque wrote:

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From mediawiki's README: The code is written in PHP. Version 4.3.2 or higher is recommended. There are known issues with early 4.2.x releases.

What issues are these, exactly?

4.2.0 and 4.2.1 had serious security vulnerabilities, so avoid them! 4.2.2 was the last of the 4.2.x series, iirc. (Look up the release notes on php.net if you want details.)

I would like to install mediawiki in sourceforge, but their version of php is php-4.2.2-17.2. Can I install it anyway? How severe are the issues mentioned in README?

Sourceforge's project web servers seem to be running PHP 4.1.2, actually. (The login shell server has 4.2.2.) It should generally work (several projects run MediaWikis on their SF project accounts), but you may or may not have mysterious login session problems and it might be really slow depending on how the servers are faring.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

SourceForge's servers are being updated "in the last week of November" and will have "PHP 4.3.8" on them, according to the last Sitewide Update for project admins. So if you just wait a few weeks you'll have PHP 4.3.8 to play with, and hence should have no problems...

Cian

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 23:42:35 -0200 (BRST), Thiago F.G. Albuquerque tfga@terra.com.br wrote:

Hi,

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From mediawiki's README: The code is written in PHP. Version 4.3.2 or higher is recommended. There are known issues with early 4.2.x releases.

What issues are these, exactly? I would like to install mediawiki in sourceforge, but their version of php is php-4.2.2-17.2. Can I install it anyway? How severe are the issues mentioned in README?

TIA, Thiago

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