[solved] installation - bootstrap.php line 57

pixiu

v2.0.17.8

when i point the browser to mydomain.com/vanilla (where vanilla file structure is located) i get this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting '(' in /homepages/44/d357176027/htdocs/vanilla/bootstrap.php on line 71

i've checked out bootstrap.php and (i'm definitely not a php guru, but) i couldn't find anything wrong on line 71, or anywhere else for that matter. i've installed vanilla in the past and never run in to this issue. i even tried installing an older version (1.1.10) and it installed fine. and even if i try to upgrade that version to 2.x it still gives me the same message

any help/advice would be awesome, thank you

bikuta

Are you using PHP 5?

pixiu

UGH! that's what i get for assuming that just because the host HAS php5 they're actually USING it.

i read up everything on my host's site and it all said yeahyeah php5+6 beta, this and that, but after reading your post i thought, "well, it can't hurt to just make a phpinfo file and make sure" and sure enough it was 4.x

sooooooo thank you a bunch for that

/another happy vanilla user....guy, dude, yeahhh

mikeromeo

@pixiu

It seems we are using the same provider. I got the same problems but have no solution yet. Can you please tell me what you had done to get vanilla to work?

thanks in advance
mike

mikeromeo

Got it to work now via setting up a .htaccess file

UnderDog

@mikeromeo Which setting did you make in the .htaccess file?

OrangePapers

I encountered a very similar puzzling error in trying to start installing Vanilla 2.0.17.9
-- My ISP had both PHP 4.0 and 5.0 installed, but the default was to use
version 4.0. That produced this error message right at start-up:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',', expecting '(' in /home3/orangepa/public_html/vanilla/bootstrap.php on line 71


Fortunately, the fix was easy: Just tell the system to use PHP 5.