Title: Couldn’t activate 2.4.1 syntax error
Last modified: November 28, 2018

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# Couldn’t activate 2.4.1 syntax error

 *  Resolved [lucina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucina/)
 * (@lucina)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couldnt-activate-2-4-1-syntax-error/)
 * Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.
    Parse error:
   syntax error, unexpected ‘[‘ in /data/41/0/74/37/400200/user/407441/htdocs/wordpress/
   wp-content/plugins/fast-velocity-minify/fvm.php on line 64

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 *  Thread Starter [lucina](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucina/)
 * (@lucina)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couldnt-activate-2-4-1-syntax-error/#post-10927452)
 * Sorry, I finally got a message saying that the plugin requires php 5.4 and my
   host is running 5.3.29
 *  Plugin Author [Raul P.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alignak/)
 * (@alignak)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/couldnt-activate-2-4-1-syntax-error/#post-10928373)
 * Hi!
 * Sorry to hear that. Please note that PHP 5.3 is extremely outdated and has security
   vulnerabilities. At the lowest possible, you would want at least, version 5.6.
 * I suggest you to urgently look for another hosting.

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