Re: Installing local PEAR copy on shared host

Check your configuration. The documentation does not state that you need to double check the configuration. Once you get it correct, manually, it works great! I elected to install PEAR into /www/servername/includes, and after it installed the basics, it wrote the file for the front end into that directory. I copied it over to a place accessible to my web server, then ran it, and it gave me the same errors. Changing the configuration fixed the problem. Before I go there, you might want to do the include path differently. It assumes a certain configuration, that will not work on all servers. I work on Linux, so it would do it like this... <?php ini_set('include_path' . '/www/servername/includes/PEAR' . PATH_SEPARATOR . ini_get('include_path')); ?> But that does not work because the PATH_SEPARATOR does not work on my system, so I do: ini_set("include_path",ini_get("include_path") . ":/www/servername/includes/PEAR"); With that aside... This is what my config looks like... PEAR executables directory: /www/servername/includes/bin PEAR documentation directory: /www/servername/includes/PEAR/docs PHP extension directory: /usr/lib/php4 PEAR directory: /www/servername/includes/PEAR PEAR Installer cache directory: /www/servername/includes/PEAR/cache PEAR data directory: /www/servername/includes/PEAR/data PHP CLI/CGI binary: /usr/bin/php PEAR test directory: /www/servername/includes/PEAR/tests Cache TimeToLive: 3600 Preferred Package State: stable Unix file mask: 22 Debug Log Level: 1 HTTP Proxy Server Address: PEAR server: pear.php.net PEAR password (for maintainers): Signature Handling Program: /usr/bin/gpg Signature Key Directory: /etc/pearkeys Signature Key Id: Package Signature Type: gpg PEAR username (for maintainers) By making those changes, it works perfectly. FYI: I'm a sysadmin but I've been try to figure out the best way for people to use PEAR when they do not have root access to a system, which is pretty much everyone. With a little testing and tightening up of the documentation (the double check of the config) it is almost perfect. On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 20:05:21 -0500, David King <dave@tech-king.com> wrote:

Hello, I tried to get archived messages from the list server, but all it would send me was the topic names.. i.e... pear-general-get.398_401@lists.php.net output: pear-general Digest of: get.398_401 Topics (messages 398 through 401): installing PEAR standalone/non-root 398 by: John K. 399 by: Martin Jansen 400 by: Ryan Grange 401 by: Luc Saint-Elie (But no actual message data!) Problem: I can successfully install PEAR locally on a shared server but I cannot figure how to administer it once it is installed. i.e. I get the following errors %/home/myacccount/pear/bin/pear install XML_Tree downloading XML_Tree-1.1.tgz ... Starting to download XML_Tree-1.1.tgz (4,826 bytes) .....done: 4,826 bytes failed to write /usr/local/lib/php/XML/.tmpTree.php (I cannot get access to this directory) Details: I am installing a local copy of pear for which I do not have access to root or the system pear command. I performed the following steps per the doc page (ftp section) http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.shared.php: 1. mkdir /home/myacccount/pear (not accessible from http) 2. chmod 777 /home/myacccount/pear 3. mkdir /home/myacccount/www/installpear (accessible from http) 4. cd /home/myacccount/pear 5. lynx -source http://go-pear.org > go-pear.php 6. cp go-pear.php /home/myacccount/www/installpear 7. (from browser) http://mydomain.com/installpear/go-pear.php 8. This executes the install program.. which executes successfully 9. Now /home/myacccount/pear contains the following directories:

drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   nobody       1024 Dec 22 16:28 bin
-rw-r--r--    1 nobody   nobody       2414 Dec 22 16:28 index.php
drwxr-xr-x   18 nobody   nobody       1024 Dec 22 16:28 PEAR
-rw-r--r--    1 nobody   nobody        410 Dec 22 16:28 pear.conf
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   nobody       1024 Dec 22 17:35 tmp

I also tried the following: 1. cd /home/myacccount/pear 2. cp index.php /home/myacccount/www/installpear 3. (from browser) http://mydomain.com/installpear/index.php 4. I was able to search and find the XML_Tree module through the PEAR Install/Update interface, but had the following error when trying to install it: downloading XML_Tree-1.1.tgz ... Starting to download XML_Tree-1.1.tgz (4,826 bytes) . . ...done: 4,826 bytes failed to write /usr/local/lib/php/XML/.tmpTree.php I would appreciate any assistace in this matter Dave King

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