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#13586 PHP warning

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Latest post by on Friday, 19 October 2012 18:00 CDT

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:13 CDT

hgdc
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Joomla! version: (2.5.7)
PHP version: (5.3)
MySQL version: (unknown)
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Akeeba Backup version: (3.5.6)

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Description of my issue: Not so much an issue maybe a bug. When I install the component I get a warning that I am running PHP 5.2 despite having 5.3. Everything works and I can switch the warning off. It happened on two sites now. Not a big problem, it just forces me to go back and check the PHP version.

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:18 CDT

nicholas
I have checked the behaviour of the warning under different versions of PHP 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4. I'm sure that it only appears on versions lower than 5.3. Please double check your PHP version, I think you are accidentally using PHP 5.2.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:30 CDT

hgdc

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:31 CDT

nicholas
Go to your site's back-end, Site, System Information and click on the PHP Information tab. What is the PHP version written over there in big, bold, blue letters next to the big PHP logo?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Tuesday, 18 September 2012 10:32 CDT

nicholas
Also, FYI, there is no such thing as version 3.5.6 of Akeeba Backup. You either have 3.5.a1 to 3.5.2 or 3.6.0 to 3.6.5. Which one is it?

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:27 CDT

hgdc
My bad it is a typo, should have been 3.6.5, latest.

You are right on the system Info/PHP info it comes as 5.2.17.

Will take up with service providers as the php switch thing should have given me the 5.3 version.

Thanks for your time, by the way I haven't come across any problems using it under 5.2 version only the warning.

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:29 CDT

nicholas
OK, that's what I figured :)

Right now, my software still works with PHP 5.2. However, PHP 5.2 is end of life since January 2011. It already has several confirmed security vulnerabilities which can be realistically exploited to compromise your server. Moreover, new Joomla! version will require PHP 5.3. I don't see any point in insisting on supporting an outdated, insecure version of PHP. If I have to implement a new feature and it only works on PHP 5.3 I will break compatibility with PHP 5.2 without any other warning than the one given since Akeeba Backup 3.5.a1.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:57 CDT

hgdc
OK. Talked to the providers and they said that Joomla as a default sets the .htaccess file as PHP5

and one needs to change the line

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5
to
SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 53

And now the info is showing 5.3.10

Thanks for your patience, hopefully this can help someone else.

Keep up the good work.

regards

Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:57 CDT

nicholas
You're welcome!

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Friday, 19 October 2012 18:00 CDT

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