[Owncloud] Is PHP 5.3 needed to run ownCloud on Windows?

[Jashan Chittesh]

I've read http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/owncloud/2011-December/001798.html and installed ownCloud on my Windows Server 2008, with IIS 7 and PHP 5.2.17 but ran into an issue with the function symlink() not being supported (the first page came up, but the installation failed - first just got a blank screen but after activating errors and first trying to fix something that was actually just a notice I finally saw the "Fatal error" ;-) ).

It took me a little research to figure out that seemingly, symlink() is supported on Windows only starting with PHP 5.3. See also the changelog at: http://php.net/manual/en/function.symlink.php

I'm not really doing much with PHP and what I do is running fine, so I first hesitated doing the upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3 (there's a couple of blog postings that could really scare you ;-) ). But, upgrading to 5.3 did fix the issue and ownCloud is now working.

So that information should probably be included at http://owncloud.org/install/advanced/ ... unless I'm mistaken and ownCloud actually does run on PHP 5.2 on Windows ;-)

Sunny regards,
Jashan
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(Jashan, 2010-03-01)