Thread:Project:Support desk/Fatal exception of type MWException after upgrade to MW from 1.19 to 1.20/reply (14)

brand new installation of mediawiki on namecheap.com did not work. got the Fatal exception of type MWException error

I added:

$wgShowExceptionDetails = true;

to localsettings.php

and this was the result:

[ced43ef5] [no req] Exception from line 61 of /home/ideakwty/public_html/dclegalfirm.com/mw/includes/WebRequest.php: MediaWiki does not function when magic quotes are enabled.

Backtrace:


 * 1) 0 /home/ideakwty/public_html/dclegalfirm.com/mw/includes/Setup.php(544): WebRequest->__construct
 * 2) 1 /home/ideakwty/public_html/dclegalfirm.com/mw/includes/WebStart.php(121): require_once(string)
 * 3) 2 /home/ideakwty/public_html/dclegalfirm.com/mw/index.php(43): require(string)
 * 4) 3 {main}