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I host my Joomla ran website (http://www.beernutgallery.com) with Network Solutions. Since I've started hosting there they have used a PHP4 platform, but now they are forcing all of their clients to upgrade to PHP5.

This is a bit of a problem, because I'm not sure if my version of Joomla is compatible. They have a testing site in place that tests your site's compatibility with PHP5. When I try to run my site I get the following error:

Fatal error: Using $this when not in object context in /data/15/1/93/132/1419621/user/1524518/htdocs/templates/beernutgallery/index.php on line 18

Anyone have ideas on why this is happening and if it is a fatal error? I'm really worried that when I upgrade it will crash my site.
Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
Nick

I will join this question:
I need to upgrade my Joomla to PHP5 - is there any way this can be done easily and painlessly??

thanks,
-Dov

Hello everybody,

I am joining this post. My Joomla version is 1.0.12 and when I tried to upgrade to php 5 funny thing happened:

It did not work at all aside from the frontpage

Meaning, clicking on any of the content items or components resulted in a blank page

However, when I turned Search Engine Friendly URLs off it worked fine!!

Any ideas?

Tnx,

Tamir

I'm having this problem too. Did anyone find a solution?

Upgraded to PHP 5.
2 Joomla 1.5 test sites working fine.
2 live Joomla 1.0.15 sites can't even be accessed in the admin area.
All I see is the offline banner but with the error message... contact the administrator
I've cleared the cache.
Tried the config settings with SEO off
Repaired my databases in MySQL
Uploaded new files
If I try to install, it says the sessions.save_path directory is not writable.
Tried to switch back to PHP 4 to no avail.
Checked the .htaccess and php.ini files for glaring issues as compared to the backed up versions.
Nothing
Error logs show nothing recent.
The reason I updated in the first place was due to a zend optimizer error.
What am I missing?
I am stumped.
I think it has something to do with the sessions.save_path directory not being writable.

Joomla is fully compatible with php5 and no modifications or changes are needed.

If you are having trouble with the sessions save path, then check that your absolute paths are indeed correct in the configuration.php file. Make sure there are no incorrect .htaccess redirects in any htaccess files. If the updated server is now running php as a cgi process then make sure there are no php_flags active in an .htaccess file as they will cause errors.

Your session save path should be /tmp which is a directory outside of public_html. It needs to be writable and should be included in your domains php open basedir setting. Ask your hosting service to properly set this directory up for you as they should know the proper server paths to place in the open basedir.
An open basedir should look something like this:
/home/myaccountname/:/tmp:/usr/local/lib/php/:/usr/local/etc/: and so on.... depending on particular server setup and options available to your account.

I am running 1.57 & turning off the SEF seemed to return the site to normal. How do I & we fix it so that SEF works again?

Having this same problem with the SEF... anybody found a workaround or is there a plugin that would do the same job?

Rename your htaccess.txt file to .htaccess

as for a plugin try SEF404