tekiegreg Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Hey guys was trying to upgrade MediaWiki via Softaculous just now and was getting a message "unable to upgrade, PHP version 5.3.2 required". What version(s) of PHP are available right now, or any other ideas? Thanks! PirlWerbtit and etencinly 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Softaculous detects the servers default PHP version, which right now is still the 5.2.X branch. Even if you set a handler to your account to use 5.3.X or 5.4.X Softaculous doesn't care, all it relies on is the system. We're looking to move to 5.3.X as the default in the coming weeks which will fix this. In the mean time you'll need to do the software upgrade manually I'm afraid. Instructions on how to manually upgrade can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading -- if it does require 5.3.X to do manually, follow the instructions at https://support.hawkhost.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/107/0/how-do-i-use-php-53 to switch your account to PHP 5.3.X. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffro Posted April 4, 2013 Report Share Posted April 4, 2013 I would like to use Softlacious as well, but Hawkhost is behind the stable release of PHP. I wish someone would be on top of these updates. PHP 5.4.13 (Current stable) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted April 4, 2013 Report Share Posted April 4, 2013 I would like to use Softlacious as well, but Hawkhost is behind the stable release of PHP. I wish someone would be on top of these updates. PHP 5.4.13 (Current stable) We have PHP 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 and we're working on a solution to that where if an application in softaculous requires 5.2, 5.3 or 5.4 it will know and install and pick the right version for the account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffro Posted April 4, 2013 Report Share Posted April 4, 2013 Awesome thanks! Let us know when it is ready so we can run updates and installations! This is why we use Hawkhost...you guys do respond to requests! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varandas Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 Softaculous detects the servers default PHP version, which right now is still the 5.2.X branch. Even if you set a handler to your account to use 5.3.X or 5.4.X Softaculous doesn't care, all it relies on is the system. We're looking to move to 5.3.X as the default in the coming weeks which will fix this. I'm having same issue while trying to install an app through Softaculous. When do you plan to move to php 5.3 as the default? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 To anyone in this thread / reading this thread, for the time being if you are unable to install an app via Softaculous due to a PHP version issue please submit a ticket (https://support.hawkhost.com) and link to this forum thread, and also let us know what you're trying to install. We have a work-around but it can only be applied to individual accounts for now until we move the servers default PHP version to the 5.3.X branch (which is coming soon, I promise you guys!). Varandas 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 We have PHP 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 and we're working on a solution to that where if an application in softaculous requires 5.2, 5.3 or 5.4 it will know and install and pick the right version for the account. Here's a small preview of what's coming as we're closing in on having this tested and ready to be deployed: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dixonge Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 aarg! Just tried to install an app and it failed because it requires 5.3 *sad face* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 aarg! Just tried to install an app and it failed because it requires 5.3 *sad face* If you let us know what you're trying to install via ticket we can fix this for your account until we have the PHP selector fully deployed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Here's a small preview of what's coming as we're closing in on having this tested and ready to be deployed: php_selector_preview.PNG The PHP selector is now available Blog post here about it: http://blog.hawkhost.com/2013/04/12/introducing-our-php-selector-and-php-5-5-the-choice-is-yours/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelikin Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 The selector is really, really good, except it's not quite working (for me). I changed my version of php to 5.3 so I could install 'tiny tiny rss' via softaculous. But the version shown in the left sidebar of cpanel still shows as 5.2.17 and when I try to install 'tiny tiny rss' it still complains that I am less than 5.3. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 The selector is really, really good, except it's not quite working (for me). I changed my version of php to 5.3 so I could install 'tiny tiny rss' via softaculous. But the version shown in the left sidebar of cpanel still shows as 5.2.17 and when I try to install 'tiny tiny rss' it still complains that I am less than 5.3. Any ideas? Can you try now? If not would you mind opening a ticket? The softaculous portion is still distributing but I believe the server you're on now should have it. Now to answer the question about the cPanel left bar that's just displaying what cPanel installed. I don't think that'll be changing right now until we determine a good way to address that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelikin Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Yep, it's working now. Thank you for a great feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Glad you like it! We're in love with it too! Smokey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey Posted April 14, 2013 Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 Definitely a unique feature I haven't seen on any other host. One of the reasons why Hawk is great. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekiegreg Posted May 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 Finally got around to putting PHP up to 5.5 and upgrading MediaWiki last night. So far so good, thanks a bunch HawkHost! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted May 4, 2013 Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 How are you finding PHP 5.5 to be so far? Personally I have zero experience with it and you may be one of the first customers I've heard using it so I'm curious what your experience has been like (if you have any thoughts!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekiegreg Posted May 4, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 4, 2013 WordPress and MediaWiki are solid so far, nothing else to report. How are you finding PHP 5.5 to be so far? Personally I have zero experience with it and you may be one of the first customers I've heard using it so I'm curious what your experience has been like (if you have any thoughts!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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