WordPress fails upgrading from php5.2 to php5.5

Hey,

The e-mail we send did missed some information. I assumed that your installation is a free mode click & build installation. The problem is your php.ini file. This has incorrect information in it when it was installed before januari this year. If you send your customer id and domain to [email protected] I could fix it for you.

Best,
Marko Heijnen
1&1 WordPress specialist.

Did you already managed to fix it?

excuse-me for the delay
I’ve just sent you the information you requested to me.

Thanks in advance

Thanks to the help of Marko that told me that I had to delete the following parameters in my php.ini it works correctly:

browscap = /usr/local/lib/browscap.ini;
magic_quotes_gpc = on;

Again, thank you very much MARKO

Hi, I’m having the very same problems. I deleted the line

browscap = /usr/local/lib/browscap.ini;

in my php.ini, but it didn’t help. The other parameter didn’t appear there. What can I do?

Thanks for your help

If you are using 1and1, Marko told me that when installing wordpress, they duplicate php.ini in a lot of folders.

Mainly you have to modify php.ini for the the root and wp-admin directory. If it works, Marko wrote a script for me that removes all these parameters in all folders where it is duplicated.

Let me know if it works in these two places and if it works I can send you the script.

Bye

The script can be found here: https://gist.github.com/markoheijnen/1fb8aef0b3069d813ec7

Thanks a lot. So I put the script into a .php file and upload it onto my server? In the root directory or into the wordpress directory?

And then I will update the php version at 1und1 and it will work?

Thanks for your help.

Yes, and you put it in your wordpress root and you execute from a browser and then you update the php version. I hope it will work for you…

I had the same problem after changing to php5.5 on 1&1.
With your help it works again now – except some plugin.
I hope, 1&1 will add this hint to its FAQ.
Thanks!

When I download the file (using the Download Gist button), and extract it, I get a .tar file and not a .php file. How do I get the .php script from the github site? Thx!

If the button does npt work. Do a copy-paste of the code you see on the screen and then paste in a text editor and save the file as .php to upload later on to your wordpress root

Thanks Marko.
I am the inexperienced administrator of my own blog, but was able to use your script to get everything running after upgrading my blog to WordPress 4.0 and then my PHP version to 5.5.

1. Logged into admin of my blog, deactivated plugins, then, upgraded to 4.0 from the dashboard.
2. Went to the Github link you provided and downloaded the file.
3.Opened the downloaded tar.gz file and extracted the php file.
4. SFTP’d the php file to my blog’s root (main) folder using Filezilla.

Here’s where I had to learn something. I wasn’t sure exactly what it mean’t to “execute from a browser“. I found out that it meant to:

5. Opened a browser and typed the following into the url bar for the site,
mydomain.com/gistfile1.php (gistfile1.php is the name of the file) and hit return.
6. I received the message “All files are already fixed. You are ready to go to use the latest PHP version.”
7. I then logged in to my 1and 1 account. Went to Control Panel > Hosting > Manage Webspace > php settings. I selected my domain and clicked on the “Change php version” button. I selected the php version 5.5, waited a few moments and it was updated.
8. I then went back to the my WordPress dashboard and reactivated the plugins one at a time to find out which would work and which were broken. (I only lost one, but I found an updated replacement)

Everything seems to be in great working order now.
Thanks, again, to Marko and the other forum posters.

Good morning,

I received a message from ovh to upgrade php version from php5.2 to php5.5
How can i do it?
Can you help me please?

Hello,

You have to execute the script posted above by Marko Heijnen but before, read all these posts from the beginning to understand where is the problem exactly.

Bye