Problem Solved Used PHP 5.4.7 from Oracle Red Hat and it worked Set MySQL 5.7 to work in "ANSI" mode. I had previously used "MYSQL40" mysql set @@global.sql_mode = "ANSI"; // not this is temporary , resets back when you re-boot I hope this helps some one else Regards

Solved the problem Installed PHP from Oracle https://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/dist/documentation/installation.html with mbstring rpm file Packages installed are php54-5.4.7-1.el5 php54-cli-5.4.7-1.el5 php54-ldap-5.4.7-1.el5 php54-common-5.4.7-1.el5 php54-pdo-5.4.7-1.el5 php54-mysql-5.4.7-1.el5 ...

When I go to the step three am unable to proceed I have OS Red Hat Enterprise Edition 5 using user root Step 2: Information Server information * Server software : : Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat) * PHP Version : : 5.4.7 * Mysql Client Version : : 5.0.10 * Multibyte Support: OFF * mime_content_type() support ...