Constructor cannot be static after Update

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1

After the update to Version 2.6.0 I get get a white page when I try to access Piwik.

The server error log says:


[Fri Sep 05 13:43:31 2014] [warn] [client 2.206.**] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Fatal error: Constructor Piwik\\Factory::factory() cannot be static in */piwik/core/Factory.php on line 60, referer: *

I use PHP 5.3 on an apache server.

Any ideas what causes this problem?

2

Same problem here:


PHP Fatal error:  Constructor Piwik\\Factory::factory() cannot be static in /var/www/vhosts/domain/httpdocs/piwik/core/Factory.php on line 60

on PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.26 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jul 9 2014 03:30:50).

This happened with 2.6.0 and 2.6.1 - Installations on servers with newer versions are not affected.

3

See here: 301 Moved Permanently

4

That does not help. I need a concrete method to get the broken installations working again and for the future. Self-fixing some lines in code is not reliable enough for me… What else do you suggest to get rid of the error?

5

What options are there? Either fix it yourself, or wait for them to do it. Anything else?

I guess you could update PHP to 5.5. That might help.

6

That is an PHP 5.3.2 issue. See Upgrade from 2.5.0 to 2.6.1. breaks · Issue #6134 · matomo-org/matomo · GitHub