Re: Re: Setting up PEAR on a shared host - any advise or pointers?

Jim Macdiarmid wrote:

Ok, Many thanks go out to everyone who has given me suggestions and pointers on getting Pear installed locally on my shared host. I followed the instructions on the Pear website for installing it through ftp and using the Go-pear.php installer. I eventually had to install it in my public_html space after numerous attempts in installing it outside the webspace. Well, I take that back. I was able to get it installed outside the webspace, but when it came time to try to access the web interface to manage the packages, it could not be found. I tried setting the include path both in the script and in the .htaccess file. Still no luck on that end. After installing Pear, in my public_html space, I was able to access everything, including the web package manager interface. Only now I'm running into a new issue. When I attempt to install additional packages, I receive a similar error to the following, in a popup window: downloading zip-1.0.tgz ... Starting to download zip-1.0.tgz (4,930 bytes) . . ...done: 4,930 bytes 3 source files, building could not create build dir: /var/tmp/pear-build-defaultuser/zip-1.0 Anyone experience this?

You can't install extension (PECL) packages remotely unless the webserver is running as root. This is obviously not going to happen :). You can only install PEAR packages. Greg