Hello. I have been running 1.7x for some time on Dreamhost with no problems, some time in the recent past it dropped dead with the message

This script needs the PHP Multibyte String Functions library installed

I have also tried 1.8 rc 2 and get the same error, this is all under php version 5.2.6. The hosting provider does have the mbstring enabled in php. Any suggestions? This is a pretty important app for us and has been running on DH reliably for years, so this is a bit of a surprise. No response on DH forums either.

From phpinfo:

Code:

mbstring Multibyte Support  enabled Multibyte string engine  libmbfl Multibyte (japanese) regex support  enabled Multibyte regex (oniguruma) version  4.4.4 Multibyte regex (oniguruma) backtrack check  On mbstring extension makes use of "streamable kanji code filter and converter", which is distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1. Directive Local Value Master Value mbstring.detect_order no value no value mbstring.encoding_translation Off Off mbstring.func_overload 0 0 mbstring.http_input pass pass mbstring.http_output pass pass mbstring.internal_encoding ISO-8859-1 no value mbstring.language neutral neutral mbstring.strict_detection Off Off mbstring.substitute_character no value no value

Probably dreamhost did some changes to the server.

Please upload a phpinfo file so we can take a look at your server configuration. Just put the following code into a file named phpinfo.php and upload it to your webserver:

After uploading please post the link to the file.

Thanks, here is the info:

survey.imsaresearch.org/admin/install/phpinfo.php

--chris

Hmm, I can only guess. One thing that irritates me is: mbstring.internal_encoding ISO-8859-1

Everything else matches my own installation which works fine. Please ask your provider to switch this setting to "no value" (this works fine for me).

Thanks, I have sent this in to their support desk and also posted on their php-related forum.

Well, clearing out the entry for that did the trick, DH-specific things are in this string:

discussion.dreamhost.com/showthreaded.pl...&vc=1#Post113229

Thanks everyone! --chris

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