RE: [PEAR] Missing packages in PEAR installation on shared server- How to install?

Bertrand, Just to complete the thread on this post (and especially for those newcomers who have to find the right installation tricks for their shared hosting environments): Having telnet access I was able to install my own copy of PEAR using my Windows telnet terminal. To begin, I used Start | Run and entered telnet in the Open box. After configuring the Remote Host info in the telnet terminal window, I was able to login using our regular account username and password. Once logged in to the server, I created a PEAR folder within our user folder on the server. Having write access to everything beneath our user folder, this newly created PEAR folder can be used to install the PEAR packages. example: /usr/www/users/our_main_account_folder/pear Not sure if this matters, but I made sure I was in the above folder before proceeding (using the Unix commads pwd (print working directory), cd (change directory), and mkdir (make directory)). Not sure if this matters either, but best to make sure you're in the actual folder where your docs are stored, and not an alias that points to that location, before creating your new pear folder. Next I executed this command within my telnet window: lynx -source http://go-pear.org/ | php I hit <enter> when asked if I wished to continue then <enter> again to continue without specifying the HTTP proxy. In the suggested file layout I specified a different Installation Prefix (enter 1, then <enter>). I used the path for the PEAR folder created earlier (see above). After that all of the paths looked OK since they were derivatives of the Installation Prefix. Hit <enter> to continue. When prompted if I wanted to install the packages that are bundled with PEAR I chose yes and continued. The system then prompted if I wanted to change php.ini so that my custom PEAR folder would be included in the include path. I chose no, as I was worried that it might stir up some trouble at my host (probably I would have been denied access anyway). The system then told me that the default include path doesn't include my new folder and that a workaround had been added so that the installer will work. Sweet! With that, PEAR was installed and available for other packages to be installed. Two things to remember: 1) Somehow you need to modify your include path to add the new PEAR directory to it... or just specify the complete path in your "require_once" statements when including PEAR classes. I have an application config file that gets called for all of my pages, so in that file I just modified the include path like this: $PEAR_DIR = '/usr/www/users/our_main_account_folder/pear/lib/php'; ini_set( 'include_path', ':' . $PEAR_DIR . ':' . ini_get('include_path')); NOTE: Notice that the actual include path is slightly different from the directory that was created to hold the PEAR installation. One of the folks on this list might even know a way to configure APACHE or PHP using a config file in the document root for your site. 2) When installing other PEAR packages through your telnet connection, you can't use the standard command: PEAR install Package_Name (because the pear command is not in your PATH variable). Instead you have to use the complete directory as notified during the installation process when issuing the pear commands. In this case it would be: /usr/www/users/our_main_account_folder/pear/bin/pear For example, to see a complete list of installer commands, you would issue the following at the command prompt: /usr/www/users/our_main_account_folder/pear/bin/pear pear Sorry for all the words, but that should complete it for those who find the post. Tim -----Original Message----- From: Bertrand Mansion [mailto:bmansion@mamasam.com] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 2:29 AM To: timw@guyfinley.com; pear-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PEAR] Missing packages in PEAR installation on shared server- How to install? <timw@guyfinley.com> wrote : > Our site is on a shared server at Pair Networks. We have FTP and telnet > access to the server and it's running PHP 4.3.4. The Pair support people > provided me with the path to the pre-installed PEAR package > ('/usr/local/lib/php/PEAR') but they provide no support beyond providing > that info. Are you sure they didn't mean /usr/local/lib/php ? If HTML_QuickForm is installed, using: pear install HTML_QuickForm then a require_once('HTML/QuickForm.php'); should be enough to get it to work. You can probably see what's installed using the pear command line tool from telnet. Try to do a 'pear' to see what options you have , then a 'pear list-all' Bertrand Mansion Mamasam -- PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php