#213 Installation of on Cpanel hosting

Hi, thanks for updating GNU Social. Get the following errors when trying to install the most recent release,1.20.9 , on Cpanel hosting with PHP 7.4

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function bindtextdomain() in /home/social/lib/plugin.php:152 Stack trace: #0 /home/social/lib/plugin.php(69): Plugin->setupGettext() #1 /home/social/lib/gnusocial.php(82): Plugin->__construct() #2 /home/social/lib/gnusocial.php(214): GNUsocial::addPlugin('ActivityVerb', Array) #3 /home/social/lib/gnusocial.php(147): GNUsocial::initPlugins() #4 /home/social/lib/common.php(27): GNUsocial::init('jamaa.tuvutepam...', NULL, NULL) #5 /home/social/lib/installer.php(531): require_once('/home/tuvutepa/...') #6 /home/social/lib/installer.php(611): Installer->registerInitialUser() #7 /home/social/install.php(298): Installer->doInstall() #8 /home/social/install.php(126): WebInstaller->handlePost() #9 /home/social/install.php(404): WebInstaller->main() #10 {main} thrown in /home/social/lib/plugin.php on line 152

It seems your PHP has no gettext module. bindextdomain() is gettext function (refer to https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.bindtextdomain.php).

Please check your PHP gettext module by phpinfo(); or php -m and install it.

In GNU social, PHP gettext module is optional in INSTALL.md.

But I think gettext module is mandatory. If PHP gettext module is disabled, I have function error like you.

So I think we had better to update INSTALL.md and validate gettext in install.php.

Ok. It seems emulation was possible in earlier versions. Maybe it was removed by mistake? Perhaps it could be enabled again?

Yes, it was removed by mistake. Fixed with aa153f2ee7 . Thanks for noticing this.