[Mediawiki-l] PHP Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /var/www/html/wiki/includes/Preprocessor_DOM.php

[Helmut Schneider]

Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> Helmut Schneider wrote:
>> Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>>>> after upgrading from 1.11 to 1.12 on FreeBSD6.3 I get the error message
>>>> above. I found a solution here:
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>>>>
>>>> http
>>>> //www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#.28RESOLVED.29_PHP_Fat
>>>>
>>>> al_e
>>>> ror:__Class_.27DOMDocument.27_not_found_in_.2Fvar.2Fwww.2Fhtml.2Fwik
>>>> i.2Fincludes.2FPreprocessor_DOM.php_on_line_566
>>>> $wgParserConf['preprocessorClass'] = 'Preprocessor_Hash'; I just
>>>> would like to know if this is a confirmed bug or rather a "local
>>>> problem". php-xml is installed.
>>> What version of PHP?
>>
>> 5.2.5
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> For some bizarre reason, the port maintainers for FreeBSD have disabled
> *default* modules in PHP5 such as the DOM module, and rolled it to a
> separate port, php5-dom.

Indeed, php5-dom seems to be a missing requirement. After installing it 
everything is fine.

Thanks, Helmut

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