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Can't get MediaWiki to work on RedHat via a virtual host: "PPFrame_DOM::expand: Invalid parameter type"

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134.228.229.248 (talkcontribs)

When I go to my url for the virtual host it says

LocalSettings.php not found.

Please complete the installation and download LocalSettings.php.

So I click "complete the installation" and it says this

"[XA0Qik1sQDXV2zZfZex@LAAAAAY] /mw-config/index.php MWException from line 1387 of /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/parser/Preprocessor_DOM.php: PPFrame_DOM::expand: Invalid parameter type

Backtrace:

#0 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php(2942): PPFrame_DOM->expand(NULL, integer)

#1 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php(1293): Parser->replaceVariables(string)

#2 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/parser/Parser.php(443): Parser->internalParse(string)

#3 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/installer/Installer.php(695): Parser->parse(string, Title, ParserOptions, boolean)

#4 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(704): Installer->parse(string, boolean)

#5 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/installer/WebInstallerLanguage.php(81): WebInstaller->getHelpBox(string)

#6 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/includes/installer/WebInstaller.php(281): WebInstallerLanguage->execute()

#7 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/mw-config/index.php(79): WebInstaller->execute(array)

#8 /var/www/mediawiki/wiki/mw-config/index.php(38): wfInstallerMain()

#9 {main}"


Can anybody help please. I would greatly appreciate it.

MarkAHershberger (talkcontribs)

Weird. Could you run rpm -q -a | grep ^php and tell me what it says?

Could you download an older version (1.30.1, for example) and see if you have the same problem?

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