Thread:Project:Support desk/CryptRand Error/reply

That is a known issue in some versions of PHP. It is resolved in current versions, e.g. in PHP 5.3.16 and newer.

Workaround if you cannot do an update of PHP (Note, this will potentially make your wiki somewhat less secure. I'm not exactly sure how much less secure (or more generally what the security implications actually are. You may want to modify $wgSecretKey in your LocalSettings.php to make it more random after your done the install if you do this)


 * Find the following line (probably around line 285):


 * Change it to:

See if things work.