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199.253.128.9 (talkcontribs)

Can someone help me in figuring out what the last statement means when I try to configure the website:

MediaWiki 1.6.10 Installation
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PHP 4.3.9 installed 
Warning: PHP's register_globals option is enabled. Disable it if you can. 
MediaWiki will work, but your server is more exposed to PHP-based security vulnerabilities. 
PHP server API is apache2handler; ok, using pretty URLs (index.php/Page_Title) 
Have XML / Latin1-UTF-8 conversion support. 
PHP's memory_limit is 32M. If this is too low, installation may fail! 
Have zlib support; enabling output compression. 
Neither Turck MMCache nor eAccelerator are installed, can't use object caching functions 
Found GNU diff3: /usr/bin/diff3.
Found ImageMagick: /usr/bin/convert; image thumbnailing will be enabled if you enable uploads. 
Installation directory: /var/www/development/miswebdev/html/Wiki 
Script URI path: /Wiki 
Environment checked. You can install MediaWiki. 
Generating configuration file...

Database type: oracle 
Connecting to SQL server...Oracle functions missing, have you compiled PHP with the --with-oci8 option? 

I have to use the older version of MediaWiki because I do not have the latest PHP installed. Any help would be appreciated. thanks.

Subfader (talkcontribs)
Bawolff (talkcontribs)

Little late now but...

You're trying to use the oracle database server, However your version of php is not configured (compiled to be technically accurate) to support that database. Hence the installation aborts.

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