It is possible that this old version is not compatible with newer servers. And I think it does not make sense to spend resources on searching for why this is.
Limesurvey has come a long way and has improved a lot since version 1.92+.
If you don't have important surveys and data in the old installation (which I hope you don't, because you would have been running a unpatched software for more than 4 years now), then I would just forget about this old thing and go for a new installation. If the new interface 2.55 is not for you, you can first try to go for 2.06 LTS (I think it is called 2.6 LTS now, I have no idea why). But support for this will run out, so probably best to get familiar with 2.5 already.
Should you have important surveys that you need to move, then things get a little bit more complicated. You might not be able to upgrade the database directly from 1.92 to the newer versions, but might have to go through several steps in between. But I have no idea about that. Denis wrote something about this in a post just today or yesterday, explaining the steps you will have to take.
But supporting a 4 year old version that had 3-4 major releases in between is not really feasible. This is like wondering why Windows 3.1 is causing problems when trying to install it on new and up to date hardware.