Re: pear on shared host

On 10 May 2004 at 23:20, Roland Cruse wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 05:14:21PM +0200, Stefan Neufeind wrote: > > On 9 May 2004 at 4:17, newbie@tenerife-direct.com wrote: > > > > > This is my first post to the list. I've just started using pear mostly the > > > DB package. > > > Thank you all for your efforts. > > > > > > I've been communicating with my hosting company (qwk.net) over them > > > installing pear for their shared hosting sites (me). I know I can always > > > install it locally and there as been some very informative posting > > > recently about it on this list and I may end up doing that. > > > > Maybe their installation does not provide a commandline-version of > > php, that you would need for the "normal" way of installing PEAR? If > > they have a commandline-php they can simply execute the script they > > get at http://go-pear.org ... and pear will automatically > > be set up > > just fine. > > No they don't have cli-php, only the apache module, if I understand it > correctly. > > > If you can't have this option, try downloading the source from that > > URL, put it on your webserver and execute the URL in the browser. > > This will allow you to install PEAR and later also install packages > > from the web. Depends on your system if you can easily get it to work > > - but it's worth a try. > > Yes I've ssh and have free run just as long as I don't screw things up > for anyone else on the shared server. I used the lynx go-pear for > getting pear on my developing box but didn't think to use it on the live > server. Thanks for the tip. You can in most cases even install the packages locally on your development machine and copy the installed packages to your live- server once you're done with testing. That's also very commonly done. However, better don't try to directly unpack the packages, since often a lot of work done by the installer will remain undone (e.g. certain replacements for pathes etc.) Stefan