Thread:Project:Support desk/Mediawiki 1.22+ Causes two of my servers to hang indefinitely./reply (13)

Setting $wgPhpCli = ""; is only a workaround, no fix. $wgPhpCli default to /usr/bin/php and it should not be necessary to change $wgPhpCli, if you have PHP available at that location. That $wgPhpCli needs to be changed anyway is a bug, which should be fixed.

See here for the bug report: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58719