Thread:Project:Support desk/Having trouble running update.php/reply (13)

Okay @MarkAHershberger here is what they said:

Thank you for your reply. Due to the nature of shared hosting, SSH will not be able to access PHP 5.3 as SSH runs off the parent server. You would need to upgrade your application using a different method other than SSH. Otherwise, if you require this ability, you would need to use a virtual private or dedicated server.

It appears that I can't do what I'm supposed to do do on shell. That seems strange because I figure a large company such as Godaddy would have many MediaWiki on their servers.

@88.130.117.206

I'll try to do that, thanks.

Edit: 88.130.117.206 I don't know who you are but you saved my MediaWiki with that web uploader. I could swear I tried it before I came here for help and it didn't work. This time it did and everything is working perfectly fine. Thank you so much. I'll try to install my extension (the reason I was upgrading to 1.20.2) and hopefully everything will work fine.

Edit #2: Okay now the extension I'm trying to install (Confirm Account http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ConfirmAccount) is requiring me to run update.php again which, obviously, I cannot do. Do you guys know of any work arounds? An extension such as this is vital to my MW because of the flood of spam robots we get editing pages.