I was poking around in Mantis' files and found another clue in a file named
error_log in the
admin folder, which contained the message:
[14-Mar-2024 13:55:40 UTC] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected variable "$g_db_username" in /home2/krahe/public_html/mantis/config/config_inc.php on line 40
Here is what that section of
config_inc.php looks like:
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# --- Database Configuration ---
$g_hostname = 'localhost';
$g_db_username = 'krahe_mant436';
$g_db_password = '*****';
$g_database_name = 'krahe_mant436';
$g_db_type = 'mysqli';
I don't see anything strange about it, so I don't know what Mantis would be complaining about.
The only other thing I came across that I think is worth mentioning is the PHP version I'm using. The "system default" PHP version apparently set by my hosting service is 7.2. But according to
https://mantisbt.org/blog/archives/mantisbt/743 the minimum supported PHP version for Mantis 2.26.0 is 7.2.5. Does that mean 7.2 won't work? I have used MultiPHP Manager in cPanel to set the PHP version for my domain and all my sub-domains to 8.1, which I thought had an effect, at least for actually running the application. But I'm wondering if the Mantis install/upgrade script is running with PHP 7.2 instead, and that's part of the issue. ??
Digging a little further, when I use cPanel's MultiPHP INI Editor, I find a PHP INI file for the Home Directory (which the editor shows is using PHP 7.2):
- MantisUpdateIssue20240314MultiPHPINI1.PNG (56.16 KiB) Viewed 938 times
but not for the sub-domain in which Mantis operates (which the editor shows is using PHP 8.1 as I intended):
- MantisUpdateIssue20240314MultiPHPINI2.PNG (43.76 KiB) Viewed 938 times
The interesting thing about that is that for the PHP.INI file for the Home Directory, there is a reference to a library (mysqlnd.so) that is tantalizingly close to the one that the upgrade script is looking for ("MySQL Native Driver (msqlnd) required"), but not named exactly the same, which to me raises at least a yellow flag.