Title: WordPress and PHP5
Author: Matt Mullenweg
Published: August 7, 2004
Last modified: June 4, 2021

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August 7, 2004

 By

[Matt Mullenweg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matt/)

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[Development](https://wordpress.org/news/category/development/)

# WordPress and PHP5

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Some people have been having troubles with WordPress on PHP 5 under certain server
configurations. We’ve done a lot of investigation into the issue and there is good
news and bad news. The good news is there’s nothing wrong with WordPress. The bad
news is there’s a bug in PHP 5.0.0 that causes Apache to segfault when you login
to WP. However whatever the bug was in the initial PHP 5.0.0 release, it seems to
be fixed in the PHP CVS. So if you’re already on the bleeding edge with PHP 5 you
might want to push a little further to the latest nightly PHP build. We’re certain
this will be addressed when the PHP folks release a bug fix for their first PHP 
5 release.

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