I just finished installing the latest version of Piwik (1.12). When I go to the Settings page, it tells me “You are currently using PHP 5.2.17”.
I verified with my cPanel that my current version is 5.4.16.
Hi which host provider are you using? What type of account is it a VPS, or a web host plan you are using?
Most likely Piwik still runs on 5.2. Maybe you need to enable it on the piwik server or maybe ask your host?
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Hi which host provider are you using? What type of account is it a VPS, or a web host plan you are using?[/quote]
Web hosted account on Justhost.com.
I am guessing since its a hosted environment, you will need your provider to ensure the higher php version running. Its likely a base server setting you have no control over .
If the Piwik server is going to require a higher PHP version even when it’s available, then there should be a way for us to fix this.
I’m on shared hosting from Webfaction, and they said:
All servers have 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4 installed.
You would just need to call the correct version
…so how do I do that?
They also suggested putting this in an .htaccess file:
<FilesMatch \.php$>
SetHandler php54-cgi
</FilesMatch>
However when I did that, I got a Piwik error:
Your Piwik configuration file appears to be misconfigured. You can either remove config/config.ini.php and resume installation, or correct the database connection settings.
SQLSTATE[HY000] [2054] The server requested authentication method umknown to the client