PeopleAggregator requires PHP5

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PeopleAggregator requires PHP version 5 or later. If you get an error message when starting PeopleAggregator that says your web server is running a version of PHP that is too old, here are some tips for how to get PHP5 working.

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[edit] Shared hosting

Shared hosting is where you pay a hosting company $2-20/month to host your website and don't do any server administration yourself, just upload files via FTP, and change things through a control panel. Often, shared hosting servers run PHP4 by default, with the option to select PHP5 if you want.

Normally your web host will have information about how to turn on PHP5.

Sometimes, there'll be a control panel option to select PHP5 rather than PHP4.

Sometimes (e.g. with GoDaddy's Linux hosting), you can add the following lines to the .htaccess file in your 'web' directory, and it will do the switch for you: 

AddHandler x-httpd-php5 .php
AddHandler x-httpd-php .php4

Edit this page or drop us a line if you figure out a new way for your host.

[edit] Debian Linux

[edit] For a fresh install of Debian sarge

PHP5 isn't in Debian stable (sarge) yet, so if you're running sarge you'll have to configure your system to allow you to install packages from testing, then install like this: 

apt-get -t testing install libapache-mod-php5
/etc/init.d/apache restart

[edit] Later Debian releases or Ubuntu

On Debian or Ubuntu, this will get you most of the way: 

apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
a2enmod php5
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

or for Apache 1.3: 

apt-get install libapache-mod-php5
/etc/init.d/apache restart

Ubuntu users might have to enable the 'universe repository'.

You'll probably also want this: 

apt-get install php5-xsl php5-gd imagemagick php5-mysql

or: 

apt-get -t testing install php5-xsl php5-gd imagemagick php5-mysql

[edit] CentOS

Anyone want to figure it out for CentOS? Old versions too please (CentOS 4). You might be able to do it with: 

yum --enablerepo=centosplus install libapache-mod-php5
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