[BlueOnyx:15424] Re: Drupal 7.27 install error on 5106

[Greg Kuhnert]

Hi Robert.

On 20 May 2014, at 2:17 am, Robert Fitzpatrick <robert at webtent.org> wrote:

> I purchased the Drupal 7 package from Blueonyx and installed via 
> NewLinQ, but having an issue installing. I am receiving the following 
> error...
> 
> Multibyte string function overloading in PHP is active and must be 
> disabled. Check the php.ini mbstring.func_overload setting.
> 
> I searched for a solution and tried adding .htaccess to the site as 
> follows, but still not getting past this error...
> 
> php_value mbstring.http_input pass
> php_value mbstring.http_output pass
> php_value mbstring.encoding_translation 0
> php_value mbstring.func_overload 0
> 
> Anyone ran into this and know how to resolve this issue with Drupal 7 on 
> this Blueonyx 5106 server?

Let me explain how this is supposed to work. Wham modules include settings that are required for an application to function for a default install on stock PHP and/or mod_php package. We do this by putting special settings into the wham module that get applied at a vsite level during install. Normally, we set this up when we first create a package.

Your problem can be caused by:

1. Some non-standard PHP settings that are coming from somewhere on your server.
2. A newer PHP version that was created after our initial drupal package build that we have not yet tested for.
3. Code changes in drupal in a recent version that were not present when we made our first Drupal package.

I will contact you off-list to discuss next steps to determine the root cause of the problem, and get a fix to you asap.

Greg.