1.8.0-beta on XAMPP: Call to undefined function __()

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Hello,
I’m trying to install 1.8.0-beta experimentally on a XAMPP stack. I’ve followed the instructions here: http://xibo.org.uk/manual-tempel/en/install_cms.html and extracted the folder, set the correct DocumentRoot etc.

When I access http://localhost, I get the installation check screen and when I click proceed, I’m getting a blank screen. I enabled verbose error logging in apache and the output of the log is:
[Fri Jul 22 12:32:41.048009 2016] [:error] [pid 2456:tid 1980] [client ::1:65005] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in D:\xampp\htdocs\xibo\cache\bc\bc1d818db972255e22ccade4089bda680f5e0013e8ae2290abe42f48affd0b32.php on line 70

I checked phpinfo() and gettext() is enabled.

How do I fix this?

Thank you.

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Well, this is interesting.

My guess is that your mod_rewrite isn’t configured correctly and that Xibo should be showing you a “not found” page.

Can you try inserting the following line above here: https://github.com/xibosignage/xibo-cms/blob/develop/web/install/index.php#L63

Translate::InitLocale($app->configService, 'en_GB');

If that fixes the error and you do indeed get a “Not found” page, then I suspect you might be in a sub-folder/alias and have to adjust the Rewrite_base of your .htaccess file.