[Mediawiki-l] PHP XML problem during installation

[Jef]

On Wed Jun 27 07:32:44 PDT 2007, Brion Vibber 
<brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> Jeffrey Benner wrote:
>> PHP's XML module is missing;
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> 2) Is it physically on the disk but not enabled? Check php.ini

Brion thanks that did it. I needed to uncomment ;extension= lines 
for both xml and session support and restarted Apache. Obviously 
this is the first PHP application I have worked with though I have 
installed other server packages before.

As an FYI to MediaWiki developers, it would be nice if a note to 
this effect was included in the installation docs so that future 
installers would be spared the hassle. I am a DBA who works in 
Unix in my job but haven't needed to work with PHP before. This 
was easy once you put me on the scent.

Jef