[Pdbwiki-devel] [BiO Rat Works] PHP bug (in version 5.3.1) leads to MW incompatibility...

[Dan Bolser]

2010/1/11 J.W. Bizzaro <jeff at bioinformatics.org>:
> Hi Dan,
>
> So, are you requesting a rollback to PHP 5.2.12 or to what we were using
> before (I need to look that up)?

Yup, 5.2.12 please :-)

That version doesn't introduce the problems that are found in 5.3, but
does include a lot of security fixes in 5.2.

All the best,
Dan.


> Cheers,
> Jeff
>
> Dan Bolser wrote:
>>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> This bug in MediaWiki [1] points to a bug report against PHP [2] that
>> seems to be a fundamental problem for MediaWiki. In the words of the
>> MediaWiki developers, 'its broken'.
>>
>> Any chance of a PHP roll-back? I realise the circumstances under which
>> PHP was upgraded were exceptional, but hopefully the 5.2 branch is
>> being security bug-fixed? http://php.net/index.php - "Security
>> Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.12"...
>>
>>
>> In the long run, apparently RC1 fixes the problem in the 5.3.1 branch
>> (http://qa.php.net/)
>>
>>
>> We're experiencing lots of problems with the PDBWiki website that have
>> been created by this bug... Considering the recent problems on the
>> server, would multiple virtual hosts be an option?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dan.
>>
>>
>> [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21793
>> [2] http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50394
>>
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