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According to the MediaWiki website, MediaWiki requires either PHP 5.3.0 or 5.3.2 because of a bug introduced in PHP 5.3.1, distributed in the latest version of XAMPP.

I downloaded the PHP 5.3.2RC2 VC6 Threadsafe version and tried installing it over the current PHP installation, then tried just replacing just the PHP from a .zip download. Neither of these attempts has the entry points Apache needs to use PHP.

Am I downloading the proper version of PHP to upgrade XAMPP? If not, do I use a different download? How do I upgrade?

Nick P.

I faced the same issue. The following appeared to work.
Stop apache
Rename the default php folder Install folder c:\XAMP\php to c:\XAMP\_php to get it out of the way.
Used 5.3.2rc installer package to install PHP in the c:\XAMP\php folder telling the install program where apache was installed.
The install altered c:\XAMP\apache\http.conf file by adding a PHPINIDIR entry which is also someplace else in the included configs and which creates an error. The PHPINDIR line needs to be commented out.
The installer also added a line after the PHPINIDIR entry which apache needed so only remove the PHPINDIR line.

Thanks for your reply

I ended up by going back to PHP 5.3.0, by downloading XAMPP 1.7.2 which had that version. I uncompressed it somewhere else, then replaced the "php" folder in XAMPP 1.7.3. I also replaced the two PHP .dlls (under Windows) in the Apache folder.

I found this on Stackoverflow.com: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1302 ... use-joomla