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.) > Yes, I've used the installer on my development machine which puts pear in /usr/share/pear which will be different on my shared host machine. I'd like my development machine to match the shared host. I guess there are a few ways I could do that. Use .htaccess to make an include directory under my shared server tree. Anybody know if I can define multiple include directories or only one? Or have an absolute address when including pear packages. I am also assuming I can tell the pear package installer where to install pear. Thanks for the help Roland