Comments on: Whoops: Magento supports PHP 5.2.0 or newer

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:40:53 +0000

SOLVED!!
Yet I’m embarrassed to admit that I was using my user account password rather than “root” as the password for root. I never knew. I hope this is helpful to someone else.

Thanks Ashley for the great site and help!
Justin

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:21:37 +0000

Well as usual it takes a reinstall. After a complete reinstall and complete reunpack of Magento I was able to get to the install panel. However, it just started looping when I got to the configuration screen. I set:

host: localhost
database name: magento
user: root
password: my password
base url: http://localhost/MYDOMAIN/magento/
admin path: admin

But when I click on continue it just keeps loaded this same page with no errors.

Also I did like you said and turned off MAMP and tried to reload the URL and got the page cannot be displayed so no second webserver which is good.

thanks,
Justin

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:03:20 +0000

Does MAMP report 5.2.6 in it’s phpInfo page too? Can you try stopping MAMP and then browsing back to the store URL, I wonder if it’s possible Magento is actually running in another webserver, and not MAMP?

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:00:41 +0000

Hi Ashley,

I ran the version checker on all instances and they all come back as either “this is a directory” or “command not found”. EXCEPT

/usr/bin/php -v

which returns 5.2.6
And yes I do have MAMP set to use PhP 5. I’m stumped.

thanks,
Justin

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 23:54:50 +0000

Your site has been really helpful to me so far in getting MAMP going. I am getting the “whoops” error even though MAMP says I’m running 5.2.6.

When I run grep I get:

/usr/bin/php
/usr/lib/php
/usr/share/zsh/4.3.4/functions/_php

I unpacked Magento into the htdocs folder in the MAMP folder.

Do I have too many php versions? Is there some conflict between the Php that came with OS 10.5.6 and MAMP?

By: CheeseandRice

CheeseandRice — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:19:55 +0000

GADZOOKS! I have located an extra PHP using this method. Fantastic!

I suppose the question now is how to safely remove the undesired PHP. Or even better yet, just disable it. Google was not helpful on this one. The only way I know to do it is to comment it out in the apache config (httpd.conf). So I guess the next step is really to find out if another version of Apache is running? So I need to look deeper using my novice Terminal skills. I did an MDFIND httpd.conf and found a few suspects but none of the usual;

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache2/libphp5.so
LoadModule fastcgi_module libexec/apache2/mod_fastcgi.so

to comment out. Perhaps there is a Includes calling the script? I did a MDFIND php5, but I did not find the culprit. Any suggestions?