Pear Question

[ingoratsdorf]

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]

Thank you Ingo!

I shall attack this issue tonight and win!

: )

[ewood]

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

Ed

[oshman6785]

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]

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