Thread:Project:Support desk/Having trouble running update.php/reply (10)

Thank you. I said something like what you said, and they finally gave me a somewhat useful response. Here it is, if this helps you to help me:

Thank you for your response. If you're running a phpinfo command via SSH, the PHP version given will be the PHP version of the parent server, not your hosting plan. Anything running on your hosting plan would be PHP 5.3. So there wouldn't be a shell command to force PHP 5.3 within SSH. If you're seeing an error when attempting to run the shell command provided by MediaWiki, please provide that information so that we can test further.