If you are running PHP 5.3+ and
Suhosin you may have to comment out the check for the date.timezone in the setup/index.php file (lines 47-52). Suhosin may be blocking the
ini_get function, so modx can’t properly check the date.timezone setting.
Edit: Make sure that the date.timezone property is correctly set before disabling this check.
/*if (version_compare(MODX_SETUP_PHP_VERSION,'5.3.0') >= 0) {
$phptz = @ini_get('date.timezone');
if (empty($phptz)) {
die('<html><head><title></title></head><body><h1>FATAL ERROR: MODX Setup cannot continue.</h1><p>To use PHP 5.3.0+, you must set the date.timezone setting in your php.ini. Please do set it to a proper timezone before proceeding. A list can be found <a href="http://us.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php">here</a>.</p></body></html>');
}
}*/
