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 Hi!

I moved a website from my own server to an ISP. First I got only a blank page after moving. I had to disable Admin Tools, to get the site working. I checked my ISP:s PHP settings. The following PHP functions are disabled:
phpinfo,
pcntl_alarm,
pcntl_fork,
pcntl_waitpid,
pcntl_wait,
pcntl_wifexited,
pcntl_wifstopped,
pcntl_wifsignaled,
pcntl_wexitstatus,
pcntl_wtermsig,
pcntl_wstopsig,
pcntl_signal,
pcntl_signal_dispatch,
pcntl_get_last_error,
pcntl_strerror,
pcntl_sigprocmask,
pcntl_sigwaitinfo,
pcntl_sigtimedwait,
pcntl_exec,
pcntl_getpriority,
pcntl_setpriority,
mb_send_mail,
system,
exec,
passthru,
dl,
proc_open,
shell_exec,
posix_kill,
popen,
apache_get_modules,
apache_get_version,
apache_getenv,
apache_note,
apache_setenv,
disk_free_space,
diskfreespace,
escapeshellarg,
escapeshellcmd,
highlight_file,
ini_alter,
leak,
openlog,
proc_close,
proc_get_status,
proc_nice,
proc_open,
proc_terminate,
set_time_limit,
show_source,
symlink,
tmpfile

Is this the reason why I cant use Admin Tools on the new server or is the PHP-version to old?

Regards
Peter

That 5.3.3 version of PHP was something of an alpha version in the 5.3 series. The 5.3.4 version is considered the first stable version of 5.3. We don't support the 5.3.3 version.

Your host may have more modern versions of PHP available that can be selected via your .htaccess file. You will need to check with them regarding the availability and instructions for implementing a newer version.

Thanks for your answer.

I will check with my host if it's possible to select a newer version of PHP. Unfortunately I have this feeling that they don't have that, so maybe it would better to change ISP.

Peter

Hello!

I apologize för asking a stupid question here. My ISP asks me which PHP version is needed to ensure that Admin Tools will work. I have studied the version compatibility matrix, but I´m not quite sure what I should answer. Obviously PHP ver 5.3.3 is too old. What version of PHP is needed?

Peter

The programs need PHP 5.3+. But 5.3.0 up to and including 5.3.4 are a special case. They were the first releases of that series and were very buggy. It is not the level that is the problem, it is the lack of stability of those particular versions.

The post from Nicholas that I saved in my notes goes like this:

FYI: PHP 5.3.0 up to and including 5.3.4 are buggy as hell. If you check the release logs in php.net you'll see how fast they were released, one after the other, to fix some MAJOR bugs. Back then PHP 5.3 was considered as a little more than a public beta. It started becoming a serious choice after 5.3.5 was released.