500 Internal Server Error with v1.24.0

[Tokzu-zz]

Hello,

This morning I upgraded my MediaWiki to 1.24.0 but I received an 500 Internal Server Error and in my error log is is displayed:

20141127T130128: wiki.kaero-webs.com/index.php
PHP Fatal error: Cannot access protected property User::$mOptionOverrides in /wiki/extensions/Auth_SMF.php on line 1050

Maybe is because the new version, by the way in 1.23 I don't have this problem.

[sagnitude]

Modify wiki/includes/User.php:

search for protected $mOptionOverrides;

replace it with public $mOptionOverrides;

this shall fix it.

[jdarwood007]

I wonder what they changed that caused this.

https://git.wikimedia.org/blob/mediawiki%2Fcore/HEAD/includes%2FUser.php
Looking at their git repo, the User class hasn't changed from what I see to cause that.

[sagnitude]

The change was introduced in this commit:

https://git.wikimedia.org/commitdiff/mediawiki%2Fcore/2daa1fab7a200ac2045e1e03e17a19fea1792afe

It seems they were trying to drop support for PHP 4.4 which doesn't support the keyword 'protected'.

[jdarwood007]

@sagnitude Is this still an issue?

[jdarwood007]

Closing this as we are targeting 1.27 at this point and will support future releases. 1.24 is EOL for MediaWiki