php required?

[Neil Adair]

The 2.1 Drupal install doc http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Install+2.1+for+Drupal
says PHP 5.2.x is required.

The installer says
"You need PHP version 5.2.1 or later, only 5.2.0 is installed."

I have Debian Etch with php 5.2.0-8+etch11

Is the difference critical to CiviCRM 2.1

[Donald Lobo]

I dont think so. i dont remember any specific issue not working with php 5.2.0

in general most of our devel servers are running the latest version of php (i.e. php 5.2.6)

lobo

[Neil Adair]

The installer won't run with the php version flagged. It also wants to put civicrm.settings.php in sites/default which isn't where it needs to go in a multi-site install. I could move it after if I could get the installer to run.

Can I still install civicrm manually?

[Donald Lobo]

hey neil:

yes you can install it manually. the installer was designed and built for a single site install. multi-site installs will need to be manual. You can also edit the install/index.php code and reduce the version requirement to 5.2.0

lobo

[Kurund Jalmi]

Neil:

We have fixed installer to support CivCRM installation in /site/all (we copy civicrm.settings.php to /sites/default) or /sites/site-name (we copy civicrm.settings.php to /sites/site-name/). This will be part of alpha4.

Kurund

[Neil Adair]

I edited the install script to accept php 5.2.0 and it worked fine.

In a multisite install the files directories also need to go in /sites/sitename.com/files/civicrm
I created the directories and edited global settings>directories with the new paths, no problems.

[roshan]

How did you modify your install script? Which file needs changing?

Thanks

[Neil Adair]

file is civicrm/install/index.php

line 222          $this->requirePHPVersion('5.2.1', array("PHP Configuration", "PHP5 installed", null, "PHP version " . phpversion()));

change 5.2.1 to 5.2.0

Neil

[alfred_nutile]

It noticed this too with all my multi site install scripts.
/var/www/web/sites/default has a ln -s to the latest civicrm.settings.php file I am using

So if I am installing
/var/www/web/sites/www.example.com
then the civicrm settings file in there is real and there is a soft link back to
/var/www/web/sites/default

The core of this install never get's used so I figure it is no big deal.

Then when I install another site I would do
cd /var/www/web/sites/default
rm civicrm.settings.php
ln -s /var/www/web/sites/www.exampleNEW.com/civicrm.settings.php .
and now the install works fine.

Not sure if that helps

[Chris Burgess]

Re PHP 5.2.1 requirement, have opened a ticket and added a patch.

http://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-3919