Sorry, this installer requires PHP!

Rehash D Internet · April 08, 2014, 04:57:30 PM

Hi,

I'm having an absolute 'mare trying to install SMF. I have uploaded SMF to my FTP server and changed all the permissions accordingly - though my host now insists that all files by 644 and directories 755). I copy the URL of install.php to clipboard and paste it into my firefox address bar in order to execute it. Having been prompted to enter my FTP password, I am met only with the above error.

Can anyone help?

I've installed SMF to free hosts before and never encountered this problem.

Many thanks.

Sir Osis of Liver · April 08, 2014, 05:15:42 PM

Would appear you're trying to install SMF on a host account that is not running php. No can do.

Rehash D Internet · April 08, 2014, 05:20:12 PM

The host has phpmyadmin and I've actually used it in the past.

Sir Osis of Liver · April 08, 2014, 05:27:49 PM

Run phpinfo (attached) and see what your php configuration looks like.

Rehash D Internet · April 08, 2014, 05:32:18 PM

I actually tried that from replies to another thread. I uploaded it to my root directory and tried to run it but either came up blank when I c+p'ed the address from FileZilla or, if I used the http:// address, got a 403 Forbidden Error.

kat · April 09, 2014, 06:28:40 AM

You need to put it in the root of your site. Then, if your site was at http://www.yourforum.com you'd need to browse to http://www.yourforum.com/php.info

Before you do that, make sure Filezilla has it's "transfer type" set to "binary", not "auto", which is the default setting.

Sir Osis of Liver · April 09, 2014, 01:16:05 PM

If your host does not have php installed, phpinfo will not run.

Herman's Mixen · April 09, 2014, 01:40:10 PM

hmm as i am reading your first post correctly....

you cannot copy and paste install.php from your FTP into your browser

just fire your browser up and goto your domain in example http://www.domain.tld/install.php if thats the correct location of your $forum_root = Folder/Directory !!

Sir Osis of Liver · April 09, 2014, 08:39:04 PM

Looks like op is running install.php correctly. The error he's getting is at the top of the install script -

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// Don't have PHP support, do you?
// ><html dir="ltr"><head><title>Error!</title></head><body>Sorry, this installer requires PHP!<div style="display: none;">

Herman's Mixen · April 09, 2014, 08:46:05 PM

wel in that case he needs to kick his hosts butt,

ask them to install MySQL and PHP

News:

Sorry, this installer requires PHP!

kat