Hi there,

Just migrated a site to a new server and having problems.

Uploaded the db and all files, set permissions etc and was just getting blank white screen with no output. (done this before on other server setups with no problem!)

Can't run a clean isntall either.

Put site into devmode and get following error:

[Warning] Wrong parameter count for substr_count()
GET /admin

Line 304 in /home/brandc/public_html/test/sapphire/core/control/HTTPRequest.php
Source

295       
296       // Special case for the root URL controller
297       if(!$pattern) {
298          return ($this->dirParts == array()) ? array('Matched' => true) : false;
299       }
300
301       // Check for the '//' marker that represents the "shifting point"
302       $doubleSlashPoint = strpos($pattern, '//');
303       if($doubleSlashPoint !== false) {
304          $shiftCount = substr_count($pattern, '/', 0, $doubleSlashPoint) + 1;
305          $pattern = str_replace('//', '/', $pattern);
306          $patternParts = explode('/', $pattern);
307          
308          
309       } else {
310          $patternParts = explode('/', $pattern);

Trace

* substr_count(admin/security//$Action/$ID/$OtherID,/,0,14)
Line 304 of HTTPRequest.php
* HTTPRequest->match(admin/security//$Action/$ID/$OtherID,1)
Line 244 of Director.php
* Director::handleRequest(Object id #8,Session)
Line 121 of Director.php
* Director::direct(/admin)
Line 118 of main.php

Any suggestions? I can see from the php.ini that the PHP version is 5.0.4 - is this really likely to be what is causing the error? Cannot rebuild database, so unsure what to do.

When I uploaded the origianl .htaccess and _config.php and tried to do a clean install in a blank db it tried to install but just sat at install.php and couldn't get passed it.

PHP 5.0.4 is very old. This is most definitely the cause of the problem. Is there any way you can use _at least_ 5.1? 5.2 is highly recommended, as PHP was terrible before this version! You might want to ask your host nicely to upgrade, as 5.0.4 is ridiculously old!

EDIT: Confirmed. http://php.net/substr_count reports 2 additional arguments were added to this function in PHP 5.1.0. Any version before this only accepted two.

If you _really_ need it to work, you could try adding @ to the start of substr_count() to ignore the warning and the execution should continue. I can't guarantee the site will still operate correctly, however.

Sean

Let them know PHP 5.2.13 is the latest in the 5.2.x line.