[Mediawiki-l] Installation question

[Lewis Cawte]

On 16/07/10 21:25, Lewis Cawte wrote:
> On 16/07/10 21:20, B. M. Whealton wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>         Recently I tried to install media wiki on my server.  I have php
>> 5.2.12  I wasn't sure if I needed 5.3.1 as a minimum or if there was an
>> earlier version that worked with php 5.2.x  I got this error when I
>> browsed to the folder after uploading the software:
>>
>> Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION
>> or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in
>> /home2/words/public_html/wordopedia/install-utils.inc on line 118
>> I put it in a folder that I renamed wordopedia.
>> Any ideas?
>> Bruce
> It seems you renamed the maintenance directory.. that should be kept 
> as the same name, MediaWiki uses has a structure that needs to be 
> kept, or it starts breaking things, because stuff is not where it 
> thinks it is..
>
> Your PHP version should be fine, see 
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_requirements
>
> -- Lewis Cawte
Ignore that, I'm looking at MediaWiki 1.16 :/