Hi,
I am upgrading from 1.15.4 to 1.17.0 and am running into a problem. I first upgraded php to 5.3.6 and then ran the web installer after renaming LocalSettings.php.
Thanks in advance!
problem: Fatal: PHP's PCRE module seems to be compiled without PCRE_UTF8 support. MediaWiki requires UTF-8 support to function correctly.
mw: 1.15.4
php:
PHP 5.3.6
mysql:
Server version: 5.0.77
Its an issue with the version of php you have (well not the version actually but how it was compiled). Try getting php from a different place.
As well as the Fatal message (above) it also gives a Warning message which states: "Warning: The intl PECL extension is not available to handle Unicode normalization, falling back to slow pure-PHP implementation."
So how can it be fatal and at the same time just a warning?
The web installer won't let you proceed even though it is possible to use the falling back position. How can we make it use this fall back position?
These are two different messages. You do not have to have php-intl for Unicode normalization (that's why it's a warning). However, you /must/ have PCRE compiled with utf8 support for MediaWiki to function properly.
Thanks (me again 195.12.20.34).
I'm on CentOS 5 with php 5.3.3. It had been compiled with "--with-pcre-regex=/usr" but it wasn't working. I did a "yum update pcre" which upgraded my pcre from version pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7 to pcre-6.6-6.el5_6.1. The installation no longer gives me the fatal error, so I carried on with the update of MediaWiki.
There was no need to recompile PHP.
Just open includes/installer/Installer.php and find envCheckPCRE() method (line 738). Add 'return true' on the top and it should work.
Don't do that. Those checks are there for a reason. If you disable them in that manner, other things will break subtly, and badness will occur.
Hello, I too have the same issue, but, unfortunately I am very novice at computers. I only know as much as HTML markup, transferring files via FTP, and modifying some PHP files to test issues. Can someone recommend how to fix the problem? I do not really have the choice to look for PHP elsewhere. I set a `test' page following another form, and see this, http://yeogang.org/wiki/test.php (my own test page). They claim everything is `okay,' and that I should not have gotten the above message. Well, I did and I do not know the next immediate step. (Original error: http://yeogang.org/wiki/mw-config/index.php?page=Welcome).
I was forced to go elsewhere (PHP from a different place). Please disregard my earlier message.
