Title: Cannot activate plugin
Last modified: September 27, 2016

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# Cannot activate plugin

 *  Resolved [divinest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/divinest/)
 * (@divinest)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugin-5/)
 * Hi,
    I can’t seem to activate the plugin. I keep on getting a fatal error. 🙁
 * Please help! Thanks.
 * ![Screenshot of the error](https://i0.wp.com/i.imgsafe.org/a680886f4b.png?ssl
   =1)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [CaptainForm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captainform/)
 * (@captainform)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugin-5/#post-8226057)
 * Hi there,
 * This is most probably because the PHP version on your server is 5.2 or lower 
   than that. We have the fix prepared, which makes the activation work correctly
   on lower PHP versions, and we’ll launch the new version soon (next couple of 
   days).
 * Please send us an email at [support@captainform.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugin-5/support@captainform.com?output_format=md)
   and we’ll give you the new version right away.
 * Thanks and sorry!
 *  Thread Starter [divinest](https://wordpress.org/support/users/divinest/)
 * (@divinest)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugin-5/#post-8226136)
 * Hi!
    Thanks a lot for your quick reply. Appreciate it. When you mentioned that
   my PHP version might be 5.2 or lower, I had to check my .htaccess (because I’ve
   already set my PHP version to 5.6 before installing your plugin.)
 * And there in the htaccess, I saw this pesky line after the declaring PHP5.6 as
   my version–
 *     ```
       AddType application/x-httpd-php56 .php
       AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52 .php .php5 .php4 .php3
       ```
   
 * I just commented out the `AddHandler application/x-httpd-php52 .php .php5 .php4.
   php3` and now I’ve activated your plugin!
 * THANK YOU!! 🙂
 *  Plugin Contributor [CaptainForm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captainform/)
 * (@captainform)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugin-5/#post-8226157)
 * That is great news! We’re here for any further assistance.

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## Tags

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 * [fatal error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fatal-error/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [CaptainForm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captainform/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-activate-plugin-5/#post-8226157)
 * Status: resolved