Does not want to install joomla 3.0.2

Question

PHP

There are no problems with version 2.5. Yielding to "advertising", I decided to put 3.0, then 3.0.1 and 3.0.2.
Locally everything is OK - installed, launched.
Uploading files to the host. When starting the installation, it says: "Your host needs to use PHP 5.3.1 or higher to run this version of Joomla!"

Checked php, version PHP/5.3.3-7+squeeze14.

What can be done?

Answer 1

You need to check the exact version. If 5.3 - then localize the place that swears and see what it does. Knowledge of PHP required.

Answer 2

What does the function give you

echo PHP_VERSION;

In principle, you can just comment out or remove the check lines

if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.1', '<'))
{
  die('Your host needs to use PHP 5.3.1 or higher to run this version of Joomla!');
}

they are in 3 files:
joomla3\index.php
joomla3\administrator\index.php
joomla3\installation\index.php

Answer 3

I began to clarify the issue of the version more specifically. And the issue was resolved. It's the version, one person mistakenly believed that my site is on a server with php 5.3.3. As it turned out, this is not the case.
Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.

Answer 4

When installing Joomla 3.x on some hosts, an error occurs "Your host needs to use PHP 5.3.1 or higher to run this version of Joomla!". To use PHP 5.3, you need to add the following line to the root of the .htaccess file:
AddHandler x-httpd-php53 .php