13 March 2013, 6:10

I need your help I just downlaoded mahara-1.6.3.tar,uploaded it and extracted it, I also created a config.php file but when I try to install it,on my site appears this message: 

Mahara will not run on PHP < 5.3.0. Please upgrade your PHP version or move Mahara to a different host.

What's the problem??

13 March 2013, 11:01

Hi Konstantina,

What version of PHP do you have on your web server? As the message says, Mahara requires you to have PHP version 5.3.0 or later.

Cheers,
Aaron

10 October 2013, 0:39

Hi.

My host PHP Version is 5.3.21 but I get the same error in installing Mahara 1.7.3!! How can fix that?

10 October 2013, 11:49

Hi Armin,

That is interesting. Can you please try running this code snippet on your server and see what the results are?

<pre><?php
var_dump(phpversion());
echo "\n\n";
var_dump(version_compare(phpversion(), '5.3.0'));
?>

That's basically what Mahara uses (in the function ensure_sanity() in htdocs/lib/mahara.php) to check that you've got a sufficient version of PHP. The phpversion() function is a PHP built-in that tells you what version of PHP you've got, and the version_compare() function is another PHP built-in that tells you whether one version is earlier, later, or the same as another. If you're running a version of PHP later than 5.3.0, then it should return "1".

Cheers,

Aaron

15 October 2013, 16:54

Thanks Aeron,
I contacted to server administrator and they enabled php 5.3 for subdomains and it solved because I've installed mahara on a subdomain.

New problem is with JavaScript error! It says "you have enable javascript...". I tried different browser and all have java enabled but I couldn't fix this issue.

Regards,
Armin