[Mediawiki-l] PHP 5.0.0 Needed

[Rick DeNatale]

On 7/17/06, Ashley Shaw <ashley at lsdev.biz> wrote:
> Hi there fellow MediaWiki users
>
> I am running Ubuntu Dapper-Drake with PHP 5.1.2 and Apache 2. The current
> MediaWiki package available from the Ubuntu Repositories is
> "mediawiki_1.4.14-1ubuntu1_all.deb", which is a number of versions behind.
> Of course when you install with the .deb package it runs smoothly as PHP 5
> was not necessary with MediaWiki 1.4.14. I have placed the MediaWiki files
> in the document root for apache. I browse to http://192.168.0.2/wiki/ and it
> tells me MediaWiki 1.7.1, Please setup
> <http://192.168.0.2/wiki/config/index.php>  the wiki first. When I click
> setup the wiki <http://192.168.0.2/wiki/config/index.php>  I get the
> following error:
>
> "PHP 5.0.0 or higher is required. ABORTING."
>
>
>
> Please help?!

Well, as the message says 1.7.x requires PHP 5.0.  You need to either
upgrade to PHP 5, or install the latest 1.6.x version of mediawiki
instead.

I gave up on the debian packaged mediawiki on my Ubuntu system since
it is so far behind.

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