You can disregard my comment about changing the PHPTAL.php as I've done a clean installation. The only action I have taken is to create a directory (writable by everyone) called /tmp in the media wiki folder.

The error I get when installing is this:

Checking environment...

Warning: set_time_limit(): Cannot set time limit in safe mode in /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/wiki/install-utils.inc on line 26 * PHP 4.3.3 ok * PHP server API is apache; 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... failed. * Have zlib support; enabling output compression. * Found GD graphics library built-in, image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. * Installation directory: /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/wiki * Script URI path: /wiki 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.

Thanks for any help,

Karl

karl@karllong.com:

...

I have acttually created a /tmp directory in my mediawiki directory and made it writable, I've also gone into the PHPTAL.php and changed the TMP variable to a foll path ie. /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/wiki/tmp, but that still results in the install seeming to hang at "Warning: $wgProxyKey is insecure"

What dit you change exactly in PHPTAL.php?