How to install ELGG on dreamhost
ELGG is a pretty nice open source social networking package. But it's relatively new, and installing on Dreamhost causes problems, I got an error message saying that it doesn't support PHP4, even though Dreamhost runs PHP5.
It seems that the check for php5 is done in the .htaccess file, and somehow it doesn't recognize that Dreamhost runs PHP5.
To fix the problem, comment out these lines in the .htaccess.
# php 4, apache 1.x
#<IfModule mod_php4.c>
# ErrorDocument 500 "Elgg error: Elgg does not support PHP 4."
# RedirectMatch 302 .* index.php
#</IfModule>
# php 4, apache 2
#<IfModule sapi_apache2.c>
# ErrorDocument 500 "Elgg error: Elgg does not support PHP 4."
# RedirectMatch 302 .* index.php
#</IfModule>
# Oct 18, 2008