<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I just installed drupal 5.1 on a web hosting provider. When I try to run install.php, I get the error:<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; "><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; "><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; "><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; "><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">Inc</SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">ompatible environment</SPAN></FONT></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">The following error must be resolved before you can continue the installation process:</SPAN></FONT></P></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 35px; margin-left: 0px; "></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(247, 206, 205); "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">Multibyte string input conversion in PHP is active and must be disabled. Check the php.ini </SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">mbstring.http_input</SPAN></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"> setting. Please ref</SPAN></FONT><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">er to the </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN><A href="http://www.php.net/mbstring"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">PHP mbstring documentation</SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"> for more information. (Currently using Unicode library Error)</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></P></P></P></P><DIV><DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px">It is unclear what I'm supposed to do to fix this. I don't see any php.ini string anywhere in my site directory tree. I'm assuming this is some system global config file (which I don't have access to).<BR></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:roy@panix.com">roy@panix.com</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>