[Mediawiki-l] PROBLEM - PHP 5.1

[Alexis Moinet]

Mediawiki 1.6.10 is the latest version running on php 4 but I believe the 1.6 support/maintenance will stop soon

Eduardo de Lagrenge a écrit :
> Hello to all...
> 
> 
> I am tring to set up the WIKI engine on my server to open a major free
> service to the Portuguese University Community but My server is currently
> running PHP 4.4.6 and they are not wiling to upgrade as they say PHP 5.1 is
> not secure and ready for production (the e-mail they send me after 2 days of
> talks is in the end)
> 
> Is there any version of Wiki that runs on that version? or is there any way
> to put the current Wiki version runing on that version?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Edu
> 
> 
> 
> ======MAIL FROM THE SERVER ADMINS======
> 
> This PHP version is more secure than you or your client will ever know. It's
> the latest 4.4.x version, with mod_security rules, adding an extra layer of
> protection, personally coded by me. This PHP version is secure.
> 
> Are you really trying to tell me they cant find a secure version that runs
> on 4.4.6? Not true.
> 
> What do you suggest, we upgrade PHP on the entire server and have a few
> hundred websites down because you want a certain version of PHP? Not going
> to happen, we cant just upgrade PHP server wide, while it's not stable
> enough / backwards compliant enough for CPanel servers.
> 
> So once again, find another version of the software, after testing PHP 5.x.x,
> it's not ready for the production servers yet.