I established a domain hosted by Sonic.net, selected the Value Hosting option, created a MySQL database, downloaded the latest WordPress version (4.2.2) tar.gz file, expanded it into a subdirectory (wp/) under the root directory of the Value Hosting installation , updated the wp-config.php to reflect the MySQL database info, then attempted to access the WordPress URL (http://www.example.com/wp/) to cause WordPress to go into its installation function.
Instead I ran into an error:
The full text of the error is:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfs/www/WWW_pages/smbutler/nokensingtonrecall.org/wp/wp-includes/locale.php on line 21
Solution: you have to have PHP version 5.2.4 or greater running (recommended: PHP 5.4 or greater) to execute the 4.2.2 version of WordPress. By default the PHP version you get with Value hosting from Sonic.net is currently 4.4.7
This can be fixed as described here:
https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/Php5
I can't be the first one to run into this. You are welcome, all of you who discover this post.
-Sean
Instead I ran into an error:
The full text of the error is:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in /nfs/www/WWW_pages/smbutler/nokensingtonrecall.org/wp/wp-includes/locale.php on line 21
Solution: you have to have PHP version 5.2.4 or greater running (recommended: PHP 5.4 or greater) to execute the 4.2.2 version of WordPress. By default the PHP version you get with Value hosting from Sonic.net is currently 4.4.7
This can be fixed as described here:
https://wiki.sonic.net/wiki/Php5
I can't be the first one to run into this. You are welcome, all of you who discover this post.
-Sean
