FATAL ERROR: MODX Setup cannot continue.

I am a newbie trying to setup Modx on my ISPs (cloud Webhosting platform - NetRegistry Australia).

I seem to be getting this error, and no one there can help with it. Wanted to ask, has anyone seen this, and have any idea of how I can fix it?

FATAL ERROR: MODX Setup cannot continue.

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.

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It means exactly what it says. You need to set a date.timezone in your php.ini. How and where you can set this depends on your hosting server configuration. It's a little surprising that your hosting tech support wasn't able to understand "you must set the date.timezone setting in your php.ini"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13916481/php-date-default-timezone-set
http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone

Quote from: sottwell at Feb 23, 2015, 09:49 PM

It means exactly what it says. You need to set a date.timezone in your php.ini. How and where you can set this depends on your hosting server configuration. It's a little surprising that your hosting tech support wasn't able to understand "you must set the date.timezone setting in your php.ini"

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13916481/php-date-default-timezone-set
http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.configuration.php#ini.date.timezone

place the php.ini file in the setup folder and it worked for me. This is what I used.

[Date]
; Defines the default timezone used by the date functions
; http://php.net/date.timezone
date.timezone = "America/New_York"

You should put one in your /manager/ folder as well, not having it can cause odd problems sometimes.

I had to enter it into the php settings within Plesk