Christensen, Courtney 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 >> > > > Hi Bruce, > > Where did you get the copy of MediaWiki you are working with? Do you know > which version it is? What operating system are you using? > > A bit more info and we might be able to come up with something! > -Courtney > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > Thanks for the replies. I downloaded the latest from the media wiki website. It is version 1.15.4. Here is the site: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
My hosting provider wants to have me pay for much, much higher price dedicated hosting to get to the higher version of php as they would have to upgrade things for everyone or something like that. I have not had a problem with any modern application so perhaps I am doing something wrong. It seems unusual that I cannot rename the top directory to something of my choosing. Oh, well. I'll change it back and see how it goes. My name wasn't 100% original anyway :-) There is a wordopedia but my website is about writing and poetry and is called Word Salad so that seemed like the best name. Bruce -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ B. M. Whealton - Web Developer, Programmer, Owner: Future Wave Designs: http://FutureWaveDesigns.com "On Being a Poet and Other Existential Ideas":> http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/words/ Publisher of Word Salad Poetry Magazine: http://WordSaladPoetryMagazine.com/ - Submit your poetry ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
