Re: Issue with MediaWiki Installation: IntlException and Locale Problems in Apache

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في الاثنين، ٣٠ سبتمبر ٢٠٢٤, ١٠:٢٧ م Marius Schamschula <
lists@schamschula.com> كتب:

> On Sep 30, 2024, at 1:39 PM, Adrian Gschwend <ml-ktk@netlabs.org> wrote:
>
> Hi group,
>
> I'm trying to install MediaWiki on FreeBSD with Apache and PHP 8.1 via
> mod_php, but I keep running into an issue related to the `Intl` extension
> and locale settings. During the MediaWiki installation process, I get the
> following error:
>
> ```
> IntlException: Constructor failed
> ```
>
> There are no errors in the Apache log, and I have doublechecked that the
> `Intl` extension is enabled and working in CLI PHP. When I run the same
> code via Apache, it throws an exception.
>
> I created a minimal PHP test case to see if I could reproduce the error
> outside of MediaWiki. Here's the test script:
>
> ```
> <?php
>
> // Set the locale to test
> $locale = 'en_US.UTF-8';
>
> // Check if Intl extension is loaded
> if (!extension_loaded('intl')) {
>    die("Intl extension is not loaded!\n");
> }
>
> // Display the current locale settings
> echo "Current locale: " . setlocale(LC_ALL, 0) . "\n";
>
> // Test the Intl NumberFormatter
> try {
>    $formatter = new NumberFormatter($locale, NumberFormatter::DECIMAL);
>    echo "Number formatting test: " . $formatter->format(12345.67) . "\n";
> } catch (Exception $e) {
>    echo "IntlException: " . $e->getMessage() . "\n";
> }
> ?>
>
> ```
>
> Results:
>
> - Command Line PHP:
>
>  ```
>  Current locale: C/C.UTF-8/C/C/C/C
>  Number formatting test: 12,345.67
>  ```
>
> - Apache (via browser):
>
>  ```
>  Current locale: C/C.UTF-8/C/C/C/C
>  IntlException: Constructor failed
>  ```
>
> So the same script works on the same jail on cli but not in Apache with
> mod_php.
>
> What I've Tried
>
> - I have set `LANG` and `LC_ALL` to `en_US.UTF-8` in both the Apache
> environment and PHP’s `php.ini`.
> - I verified that the `Intl` extension is loaded in both CLI and Apache
> environments.
> - `phpinfo()` reports the correct locale in Apache (`en_US.UTF-8`), but
> the error persists.
>
> I'm really running out of ideas here, I run MediaWiki for years and while
> it's a new jail to upgrade my env, this is not something I've seen before.
>
> Note that I tried the same with PHP 8.2, same error.
>
> Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> thanks & regards
>
> Adrian
>
>
> I have been running Mediawiki on FreeBSD for about ten years. I’ve never
> seen this issue.
>
> How did you install apache, php and Mediawiki? Which version of Mediawiki?
>
> Did you use pkg for all of them? If so, all needed parts of php should be
> there and working. Have you done anything unusual to php.ini?
>
> I used to use apache and php from ports but have always installed Mediwiki
> from source. Hence, I’ve had to insure that all the needed php extensions
> are installed.
>
> I’ve since switched from apache to nginx, as there was an issue with
> apache that took a long time to resolve.
>
> Marius
> --
> Marius Schamschula
>
>
>
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