3.7. & 3.8 - Cannot modify header information - authenticate.php on PHP 5.3.4 - HELP!

[niceguy2010]

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/XXXXXXX/public_html/XXXXXXX/vbulletin/includes/class_core.php:2552) in /home/XXXXXXX/public_html/XXXXXXX/vbulletin/install/authenticate.php on line 55

PHP 5.3.4 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Jan 24 2011 08:40:36)
Zend Engine v2.3.0
with the ionCube PHP Loader v3.3.20
with Suhosin v0.9.32.1


I have tried to install both a 3.7.3 and a 3.8.4 version of vBulletin from my account.
Regardless of the box I try installing from, it fails.
Regardless of how the config file is edited, fails (no spaces) edited in vi & notepad++
Fclose is not an issue.

Customer number is correct.
Have tried downloading in both tar and zip


Not sure where to go from here.

Any help would be appreciated

[Wayne Luke]

What is line 2552 of your class_core.php? That is where the error is coming from, not the config.php file.

[niceguy2010]

What is line 2552 of your class_core.php? That is where the error is coming from, not the config.php file.

Hi Wayne

in the 3.8.2 version class core @ 2552 reflects
$this->input =& new vB_Input_Cleaner($this);


I would need to try the 3.7.x version again to screen cap it. But it also failed.

This is all on fresh installs. So no pluggins or edits. Direct download from the customer account then to server via WinSCP

[Wayne Luke]

3.7 will not run on PHP 5.3.4 so not worth trying. Actually, I believe you need at least vBulletin 3.8.5 for php 5.3 or higher. Which is probably accounting for your problems.

If you can't use a higher version, you should downgrade to PHP 5.2

[niceguy2010]

Oddly enough we have been running all our installations on 5.3.4 on all the servers, all 3.7 and3.8
Sys admin dropped it to 5.2.13
Memcache went ballistic but other than that the new clean install of vBulletin was successful.

Thanks for the help Wayne!