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#27906 Need old kickstart for php 5.2.6

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Latest post by on Friday, 07 July 2017 17:17 CDT

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 12:06 CDT

johannes68
 Hi Nicholas,

sorry to bug you, i need to restore a WP on a very old outdated php version 5.2.6 on a clienthosting; even my own oldest kickstart version 3.8.0 didnt work with php 5.2.6, and i didnt found older versions on your homepage. Maybe can you help me out with some stoneage kickstart which would work on php 5.2.6 ?

ps: the errors are:
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/au002dm5/www/home/installation/index.php on line 40
Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/au002dm5/www/home/installation/index.php on line 40
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/au002dm5/www/home/installation/index.php on line 40

Thank you very much!

best regards,

Johannes

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 12:46 CDT

nicholas
Hi Johannes,

I know I replied to your email. I will copy my reply here so other people can see it. Thank you for making the ticket public :)

I'm afraid Kickstart is the least of your problems. We never published a version of Akeeba Backup for WordPress that's compatible with a PHP version lower than 5.3.3. Even if you were able to extract the files you wouldn't be able to perform the restoration.

For what it's worth, you can always extract the files locally using either Kickstart or Akeeba eXtract Wizard and upload them to a host. Then you can just access the installation/index.php URL of the site. But, as I explained, the restoration script itself -the thing in the installation folder- will NOT work on 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, 06 June 2017 13:07 CDT

johannes68
Hi Nicholas,
thank you very much, all clear now! We make hostingprovider updating php (just got confirmation from customer after several requests). And .. yes sorry, next time i will use ticketsystem first :)
best regards
Johannes

Tuesday, 06 June 2017 23:03 CDT

nicholas
No problem :)

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, 07 July 2017 17:17 CDT

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