RE: [PEAR] Fatal error...sometimes

Sounds a lot like a server farm problem, rather than a php/pear problem. One of the machines on the farm may not have pear properly installed. You should let your host know about this. Matt Friedman > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Greer [mailto:patrick.greer@charter.net] > Sent: Sunday January 12, 2003 3:58 PM > To: pear-general@lists.php.net > Subject: RE: [PEAR] Fatal error...sometimes > > I've had the same problem trying to use PEAR on a shared server. One > solution seems to be to put > > ini_set("include_path", "ini_get(include_path)"); > > in an init somewhere, or to explicitly set the include_path in your > .htaccess. > > I found, while trying to debug this problem, that both php_info and > ini_get > would report the correct include_path, but including code from the > system-wide include path would always fail unless I did the above hack. > > There's an old PHP bug regarding this kind of behaviour - > http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=15374 - with 4.2.1, but I'm > getting it with > 4.2.3 as well > > HTH - > > Patrick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Robert Karason [mailto:robbik@robbik.net] > > Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 2:49 PM > > To: pear-general@lists.php.net > > Subject: [PEAR] Fatal error...sometimes > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I've recently installed Tiki > > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/) on > > my website. At first I always received this error: > > > > Fatal error: Failed opening required 'DB.php' (include_path='') in > > */tiki/db/tiki-db.php on line 3 > > > > where * is the path to my home directory. > > > > The manual says that this error occurs when the include_path is not set > to > > the PEAR (http://pear.php.net) directory in the php.ini file. I > contacted > > the company that hosts my web and they told me that the server my site > is > > currently running on doesn't have PEAR installed and they would > > move my site > > to another server that does have PEAR installed. > > > > Now I got this strange problem. I sometimes get this error now, not > > always....and if I get this error I can refresh a couple of times until > I > > get the Tiki page I requested. > > > > You can try it at http://www.robbik.net/tiki/, if you > > don't get this > error > > to begin with, try surfing the site until you get it, and then do > refresh > > when you get the error. > > > > I don't understand why this errors occurs sometimes??? Do you think it > is > > DNS related?? > > > > Any suggestions or ideas? I'm all out of ideas :( > > > > > > > > -- > > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php