[Mediawiki-l] Upgrading PHP5.1 to PHP5.2 breaks MediaWiki's older than v.1.9.1

[Roger Chrisman]

Just a tip about how to ride out a PHP5.1 to PHP5.2 upgrade on your 
server.

The recent upgrade of PHP5.1 to PHP5.2 on my server caused trouble for 
my MediaWiki 1.8.2 (and might effect any MediaWiki version older than 
1.9.1).

I got my MediaWiki working again like this:

* I upgraded to MediaWiki version 1.9.2 (most recent version when I did 
this; 1.9.3 has since been released)

* I also had to uncomment the following line in MediaWiki's 
LocalSettings.php to keep it running okay in this upgraded environment:

  ini_set( 'memory_limit', '20M' );

Not sure why that became necessary but it did.

My MediaWiki runs on a commercial virtual web hosting account at 
Dathorn.com. I moved it there to escape Dreamhost.com's oversold 
virtual web hosting servers. I don't like the cPanel environment I'm 
stuck in now but the server does seem to be snappy. So far so good.

http://wikigogy.org/Special:Version

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