Pear Question

ewood 2011-08-28 02:50:17 UTC #6

ah ok, I was thinking the egw-pear was all that was needed. I’ll install Pear. Thank you!

oshman6785 2011-09-19 02:52:41 UTC #7

Is there a way around having PEAR installed if my hosting service will not do that?

If there is no way around it, what limitations will I experience?

Ralf_Becker_Stylite 2011-09-19 06:17:19 UTC #8

Is there a way around having PEAR installed if my hosting service will not do
that?

No PEAR is a requirement.

A simple solution is change your hosting provide, if he can not fullfil
such basic requirements for PHP hosting.

Other way is to install PEAR yourself:

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.shared.php

If there is no way around it, what limitations will I experience?

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oshman6785 2011-09-22 19:54:39 UTC #9

Ok, I’m looking into alternate hosts, just for this app. I will also look at installing it myself, if that is possible. Meanwhile, when I run the installation check, why does it appear that some PEAR parts are already installed and yet others are not? Is it because I uploaded the egw-pear folder under my egw folder (as found in another post somewhere else in this forum)?

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ewood 2011-09-22 20:39:27 UTC #10

Oshman here you go man I wish there were more detailed instructions on this, I pieced it from the forum and it still could be wrong but here’s what I did and I use shared hosting I think if you do this doesn’t matter if your host installed pear or not this will do it.

I used go-pear and installed: http://pear.php.net/go-pear
Then from the “pear packages” get and install “Auth_SASL” and XML_Feed_Parser.

problems I had was it installed go pear in a different directory which is default and tried moving pear to egw-pear directory but the code was jacked up in the files so I tried changing that still jacked up then ended up moving the Auth_SASL and XML_Feed_Parser to the egw-pear folder and I guess ti works.

You get it working please post because I’d like to fix mine…

oshman6785 2011-09-23 18:57:40 UTC #11

Wow!!! Thanks for that hint!!! So far it looks good. During the install setup screen, there is a text box that allows you to enter the “Installation Prefix” The default is the path to the root of that domain. Or maybe the go-pear.php file, since I put that in the root of that sub-domain. In any case, I tacked on /egw/egw-pear and it appears to have installed into that folder correctly.

Now, I need to figure out how to get the include into the php.ini so it is recognized, and for some reason, the web front end doesn’t seem to want to display anything. But I may be a bit closer to installing this on my current host.

ewood 2011-09-23 19:22:59 UTC #12

cool! I’m glad I could finally help someone else I’ve been pulling from here for so long. I can’t get the web front end to work either still, I did have it working in 1.6 but can’t remember how I did it.

oshman6785 2011-09-24 02:53:56 UTC #13

It’s definitely an awesome feeling when you feel like you can finally contribute to something that has helped tremendously in the past. I know how you feel.

Now, my turn. I got my pear front end working…

download the ./egw/egw-pear/index.php file from your site.
Change the $pear-dir to the full path to PEAR directory. In my case, that looks like:

$pear_dir = '/hsphere/local/home/username/domain.name.com/egw/egw-pear/PEAR';

I browse to my egw/egw-pear/index.php and voila!!

Now, it took a bit of digging to get that directory, since all I normally see is from the domain.name forward…

Just a couple of PEAR modules to find and install, and that tnef app that I need to fix and prerequisites are complete!

For future notes:

1 - use go-pear and install: http://pear.php.net/go-pear (Thanks to ewood!!) Create and point to your egw/egw-pear folder in the installation prefix.
2 - Download the egw/egw-pear/index.php file and modify the $pear_dir as described above
3 - Download and copy the egw-pear files to this same egw/egw-pear folder.
4 - Use the Pear web frontend to finish installing the rest of the pre-requisites that still show as missing.

I think that should be it…

ewood 2011-09-24 07:50:39 UTC #14

Woot!, thank you sir! I’ll do that this weekend. It’ll be nice to have this installed right.

(new thread) Hey what phone do you have? the last issue i have is sync with android I had my blackberry working perfect with contacts, calendar, task, it was awesome now it’s all jacked up when I switched phones.

oshman6785 2011-09-24 22:44:01 UTC #15

I can’t help you there. My phone is just a Sanyo. Nothing special, I really don’t like internet on these little phones, so I don’t see a need to have one…

ewood 2011-10-13 16:20:57 UTC #16

Hey Oshman,

I finally had time to do this and do the ugrade at the same time. I did the PEAR install as you mentioned and works fine other than I still have to put “Auth_SASL” and XML_Feed_Parser. in the egw-pear directory. If I try and install “Auth_SASL” and XML_Feed_Parser. through the PEAR web console the egw check install doesn’t pick up that I installed “Auth_SASL” and XML_Feed_Parser because its in the /egw-pear/PEAR directory and not in the /ewg-pear was this the same for you?

ingoratsdorf 2011-10-13 18:02:10 UTC #17

Hi people,

By default pear should install into /usr/share/php.
And that should be part of the php include path in php.ini.
The idea behind pear is not to be an installer for one particular website/vhost but to provide reusable code modules.
Hence separate and in share/.
Your repos should come configured to that by default.
If they are not, you have the option to manually adjust the standard pear channel install path to some other place. Even directly into egroupware if that’s what you want.
Please consult the pear online help.

Cheers,
Ingo

Hey Oshman,

I finally had time to do this and do the ugrade at the same time. I did the
PEAR install as you mentioned and works fine other than I still have to put
"Auth_SASL" and XML_Feed_Parser. in the egw-pear directory. If I try and
install “Auth_SASL” and XML_Feed_Parser. through the PEAR web console the
egw check install doesn’t pick up that I installed “Auth_SASL” and
XML_Feed_Parser because its in the /egw-pear/PEAR directory and not in the
/ewg-pear was this the same for you?

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ewood 2011-10-13 18:28:23 UTC #18

Hi Ingo,

By looking at the thread view counts this seems to be a issue many have. I now myself I’ve installed several upgrades, tried different things with Pear (thinking I have it installed correctly) followed many of different instructions, tried piecing things together all the different information and reading between the lines on Ralf’s and others post. I know I’m not a some superman of a web developer but I have installed many scrips Joomla, Dupel, Magento, etc but egroupware is killing me especially the Pear and SyncML issues. If you would could will you provide a specific link to the instructions on how to do this with Pear that would be fantastic?

ingoratsdorf 2011-10-13 22:50:17 UTC #19

Hi.

I must admit that I had several issues with egroupware and contributed to getting many of them resolved, however funny enough none with PEAR…
I guess the scenario would be quite different depending on whether you have a

a) shared server (usually no pear support)
Install it manually by downloading the archive from http://pear.php.net/
extract archive. Install contents into the directories indicated in the package XML file. May be slighly complicated. My production egroupware is on a shared server and
I got most pear packages installed manually by uploading via FTP. Some exceptions, eg Mail_Mime. The ones that did not work straight out of the box did not bother me,
they are apparently of no use to me anyway…

b) VPS (Virtual private server)
Should be the same as the next (root server), however I have no experience with them.

c) root server
1)Depending on where your php.ini sits (what version of apache you are running, whether PHP is module or CGI), check that this php.ini has the include path set to
/usr/share/php or /usr/lib/php (depends on your distro and setup), eg include_path = “/var/www/vhosts/envirology.co.nz/subdomains/groupware/httpdocs/egw-
pear:.:/usr/share/php”

Refer to http://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.users.commandline.config.php for pear channel setup
$ “pear config-show” show you your config

Make sure that the “php_dir” points the the very same directory as above, ie /usr/share/php or /usr/lib/php or wherever you store the shared php modules.
If not, run $ “pear config-set php_dir /usr/share/pear” (use directory as above).

Make sure that the shared php directory is readable by your webbrowser “www-data” group.
Install using $ "pear install ".
Make sure have checked your "open_basedir " restrictions in php.ini, otherwise includes from outside your script root directory do not work.
Refer to http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.checking.php

Hope I have not omitted anything. My distro (ubuntu PPC) has all the correct setups, so I did not need to bother. Just install and everything is working, despite of
antiquated PCC architecture…

Regards,
Ingo

Hi Ingo,

By looking at the thread view counts this seems to be a issue many have. I
now myself I’ve installed several upgrades, tried different things with Pear
(thinking I have it installed correctly) followed many of different
instructions, tried piecing things together all the different information
and reading between the lines on Ralf’s and others post. I know I’m not a
some superman of a web developer but I have installed many scrips Joomla,
Dupel, Magento, etc but egroupware is killing me especially the Pear and
SyncML issues. If you would could will you provide a specific link to the
instructions on how to do this with Pear that would be fantastic?

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ewood 2011-10-14 00:43:23 UTC #20

Hi Ingo,

Thank you for the detailed reply! I’m on 1and1 shared hosting. Here’s what I don’t understand I install the Pear package and with including Auth_SASL and XML_Feed_Parser. I got to check install page in egroupware and it says I don’t have Auth_SASL" and XML_Feed_Parser installed. If I copy the package into /egw-pear then the check install page says I have both installed.

So if I install Pear in a /user/homepage/PEAR directory how do I connect egroupware to recognize the needed Pear packages if egroupware is looking for them in /egw-pear?

ingoratsdorf 2011-10-14 01:36:57 UTC #21

Hi.

If your shared server has support for PEAR (rare!), and you have installed it into /user/homepage/PEAR then:

Your pear channel php_dir must be set to the PHYSICAL PATH - not URL - of /user/homepage and not /user/homepage/PEAR.
Your php.ini include path must then be set to the very same PHYSICAL PATH as above.

Please note that php.ini’s CAN be set for each directory, once again depending on your server hosting plan and access rights. However, php.ini’s are NOT INHERITANT, ie
the full declarations have to be repeated in case you have multiple php.ini’s.

EGW will find manually installed packages in egw-pear as it adds the egw-pear directory to the include path during runtime.
This does not work autmagically for your shared pear directory. Hence you have to set it manually in php.ini.
And the pear installer adds automatically a /PEAR subdirectory to the install path noted in the channel definition. Hence you should not point it to /xyz/PEAR but /xyz.

Hope that helps a bit.

Cheers,
Ingo

Hi Ingo,

Thank you for the detailed reply! I’m on 1and1 shared hosting. Here’s what
I don’t understand I install the Pear package and with including Auth_SASL
and XML_Feed_Parser. I got to check install page in egroupware and it says
I don’t have Auth_SASL" and XML_Feed_Parser installed. If I copy the
package into /egw-pear then the check install page says I have both
installed.

So if I install Pear in a /user/homepage/PEAR directory how do I connect
egroupware to recognize the needed Pear packages if egroupware is looking
for them in /egw-pear?

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ewood 2011-10-18 23:21:14 UTC #22

Thank you Ingo!

I shall attack this issue tonight and win!

: )

ewood 2011-10-19 01:46:39 UTC #23

Ingo,

Confirm this would you. I installed PEAR and the web front end works fine when I open the PEAR Icon in egw. I installed it to:

/homepages/4/D20873/htdocs/egroupware/egw-pear/PEAR

and in file of /egw-pear/index.php I added the directory:

$pear_dir = ‘/homepages/4/D20873/htdocs/egroupware/egw-pear/PEAR’;

So in my my question is in my php.ini if I added this line below would it be correct?

include_path=".:/homepages/4/D20873/htdocs/egroupware/egw-pear"

Then if the above is correct to I put this new newly revised php.ini file in all egw directories or at least the first level?

I use FTP what would be the best way to test Pear making sure it’s working correctly?

Thank you again for your help

oshman6785 2011-11-07 03:55:49 UTC #24

Wow, I was seriously side tracked. Anyway, I’m back to trying to figure this all out. I’m using IX Web Hosting for this, and it looks pretty similar to 1 and 1, from what you describe, and also personal experience.

I’ve got the XML Feed Parser uploaded but it’s still not working. I’m going to go through these last few posts to see what else I’m missing, and reply back here if/when I figure it out.

midol 2013-01-28 20:36:33 UTC #25

Hi Ralf,

I’m getting a missing pear message at install time and following what you’ve
said above I get from the EGW admin phpinfo function a lot of output that
includes this:

include_path
/home/wheeldoc/public_html/egroupware/egw-
pear:.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear

and then I search using locate and get:

$ locate pear.php
/usr/share/php/.channels/pear.php.net.reg

So I take it that this is a misconfiguration of some sort but it isn’t clear
to me what to do. Advice?

Also after getting the path corrected what do I need to do to get the missing
modules installed?

Thanks,

Dave