Manual:Call to undefined function json encode()
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If you get "PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function json_encode()" when you try to access your wiki, it probably means you're using Ubuntu 13.10.
Fix it with sudo apt-get install php5-json.
If the problem is not immediately solved by this, it may be necessary to restart.