[BlueOnyx:08261] Re: Wordpress reading PHP version incorrectly

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Colin,

> This is just something with the WP detection mechanism for checking the
> environment. It is running phpinfo and returning the CentOS PHP version
> which is 5.1.6. and then refusing to install. Moodle must use something
> different, because that detects the Solarspeed version correctly

Most likely it's not using a php function such as phpinfo() to detect the 
version information, but uses "/usr/bin/php -v" to determine that info. And 
/usr/bin/php is still the onboard PHP binary, where any third party PHP 
usually brings its own binary and has it in a different location.

The are two work arounds to get it working:

Check the WP code and see if it really uses "/usr/bin/php -v" and if so, point 
it to the location of your third party PHP binary instead.

OR you can try something which has a lot of bad side effects: Temporarily (!) 
rename /usr/bin/php (to something like /usr/bin/php.org) and copy the third 
party PHP binary to /usr/bin/php. BUT: As long as you have this temporary fix 
in place the GUI will throw errors left and right. So as soon as you are done, 
copy the original /usr/bin/php back.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber
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