Getting PEAR to work on XAMPP Apache MySQL stack on Windows

Question

I m trying to install Laconica  an open-source Microblogging application on my Windows development server using XAMPP as per the instructions provided  The website cannot find PEAR  and throws the below errors   Warning  require once PEAR php   function require-once   failed to open stream  No such file or directory in C  xampplite htdocs laconica lib common php on line 31 Fatal error  require once    function require   Failed opening required  PEAR php   include path     xampplite php pear PEAR   in C  xampplite htdocs laconica lib common php on line 31   PEAR is located in C  xampplite php pear phpinfo   shows me that the include path is    xampplite php pear  What am I doing wrong  Why isn t the PEAR folder being included

User · Answer

I tried all of the other answers first but none of them seemed to work so I set the pear path statically in the pear config file

C:\xampp\php\pear\Config.php

find this code:

if (!defined('PEAR_INSTALL_DIR') || !PEAR_INSTALL_DIR) {
    $PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = PHP_LIBDIR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'pear';
} 
else {
    $PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = PEAR_INSTALL_DIR;
}

and just replace it with this:

$PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = "C:\\xampp\\php\\pear";

I restarted apache and used the command:

pear config-all

make sure the all of the paths no longer start with C:\php\pear

User · Answer

Try adding the drive letter   include path    c  xampplite php pear PEAR    also verify that PEAR php is actually there  it might be in  php  instead   include path    c  xampplite php

User · Answer

You need to fix your include path system variable to point to the correct location    To fix it edit the php ini file  In that file you will find a line that says   include path          You can find out what the location of php ini by running phpinfo   on a page   Fix the part of the line that says    xampplite php pear PEAR  to read  C  xampplite php pear   Make sure to leave the semi-colons before and or after the line in place   Restart PHP and you should be good to go  To restart PHP in IIS you can restart the application pool assigned to your site or  better yet  restart IIS all together

User · Answer

AS per point 1  your PEAR path is c  xampplite php pear   However  your path is pointing to  xampplite php pear PEAR  Putting the two one above the other you can clearly see one is too long   c  xampplite php pear    xampplite php pear PEAR  Your include path is set to go one PEAR too deep into the pear tree  The PEAR subfolder of the pear folder includes the PEAR component  You need to adjust your include path up one level    you don t need the c  by the way  your path is fine as is  just too deep

User · Answer

I fixed   avast deletes your server php in your directory so disable the antivirus   check the  server php  file on your laravel folder     server php    x000D   x000D   lt  php x000D   x000D      x000D     Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans x000D     x000D      package  Laravel x000D      author   Taylor Otwell  lt taylor laravel com gt  x000D      x000D   x000D   uri   urldecode  x000D      parse url   SERVER  REQUEST URI    PHP URL PATH  x000D     x000D   x000D     This file allows us to emulate Apache s  mod rewrite  functionality from the x000D     built-in PHP web server  This provides a convenient way to test a Laravel x000D     application without having installed a  real  web server software here  x000D  if   uri          amp  amp  file exists   DIR     public   uri     x000D      return false  x000D    x000D   x000D  require once   DIR     public index php   x000D   x000D   x000D

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I fixed   avast deletes your server php in your directory so disable the antivirus   check the  server php  file on your laravel folder     server php    x000D   x000D   lt  php x000D   x000D      x000D     Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans x000D     x000D      package  Laravel x000D      author   Taylor Otwell  lt taylor laravel com gt  x000D      x000D   x000D   uri   urldecode  x000D      parse url   SERVER  REQUEST URI    PHP URL PATH  x000D     x000D   x000D     This file allows us to emulate Apache s  mod rewrite  functionality from the x000D     built-in PHP web server  This provides a convenient way to test a Laravel x000D     application without having installed a  real  web server software here  x000D  if   uri          amp  amp  file exists   DIR     public   uri     x000D      return false  x000D    x000D   x000D  require once   DIR     public index php   x000D   x000D   x000D

User · Answer

Another gotcha for this kind of problem  avoid running pear within a Unix shell  e g   Git Bash or Cygwin  on a Windows machine  I had the same problem and the path fix suggested above didn t help  Switched over to a Windows shell  and the pear command works as expected

User · Answer

On Windows use the Xampp shell  there is a  Shell  button in your XAMPP control panel   then  cd php pear   to go to  C  xampp php pear   then type  pear

User · Answer

AS per point 1  your PEAR path is c  xampplite php pear   However  your path is pointing to  xampplite php pear PEAR  Putting the two one above the other you can clearly see one is too long   c  xampplite php pear    xampplite php pear PEAR  Your include path is set to go one PEAR too deep into the pear tree  The PEAR subfolder of the pear folder includes the PEAR component  You need to adjust your include path up one level    you don t need the c  by the way  your path is fine as is  just too deep

User · Answer

You need to fix your include path system variable to point to the correct location    To fix it edit the php ini file  In that file you will find a line that says   include path          You can find out what the location of php ini by running phpinfo   on a page   Fix the part of the line that says    xampplite php pear PEAR  to read  C  xampplite php pear   Make sure to leave the semi-colons before and or after the line in place   Restart PHP and you should be good to go  To restart PHP in IIS you can restart the application pool assigned to your site or  better yet  restart IIS all together

User · Answer

I tried all of the other answers first but none of them seemed to work so I set the pear path statically in the pear config file

C:\xampp\php\pear\Config.php

find this code:

if (!defined('PEAR_INSTALL_DIR') || !PEAR_INSTALL_DIR) {
    $PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = PHP_LIBDIR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'pear';
} 
else {
    $PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = PEAR_INSTALL_DIR;
}

and just replace it with this:

$PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = "C:\\xampp\\php\\pear";

I restarted apache and used the command:

pear config-all

make sure the all of the paths no longer start with C:\php\pear

User · Answer

On Windows use the Xampp shell  there is a  Shell  button in your XAMPP control panel   then  cd php pear   to go to  C  xampp php pear   then type  pear

User · Answer

If you are using the portable XAMPP installation and Windows 7  and  like me have the version after they removed the XAMPP shell from the control panel none of the suggested answers here will do you much good as the packages will not install   The problem is with the config file  I found the correct settings after a lot of trial and error   Simply pull up a command window in the  xampp php directory and run  pear config-set doc dir   xampp php docs PEAR pear config-set cfg dir   xampp php cfg pear config-set data dir   xampp php data PEAR pear config-set test dir   xampp php tests pear config-set www dir   xampp php www   you will want to replace the     with the actual drive letter that your portable drive is running on at the moment  Unfortunately  this needs to be done any time this drive letter changes  but it did get the module I needed installed

User · Answer

Try adding the drive letter   include path    c  xampplite php pear PEAR    also verify that PEAR php is actually there  it might be in  php  instead   include path    c  xampplite php

User · Answer

Try adding the drive letter   include path    c  xampplite php pear PEAR    also verify that PEAR php is actually there  it might be in  php  instead   include path    c  xampplite php

User · Answer

Another gotcha for this kind of problem  avoid running pear within a Unix shell  e g   Git Bash or Cygwin  on a Windows machine  I had the same problem and the path fix suggested above didn t help  Switched over to a Windows shell  and the pear command works as expected

User · Answer

AS per point 1  your PEAR path is c  xampplite php pear   However  your path is pointing to  xampplite php pear PEAR  Putting the two one above the other you can clearly see one is too long   c  xampplite php pear    xampplite php pear PEAR  Your include path is set to go one PEAR too deep into the pear tree  The PEAR subfolder of the pear folder includes the PEAR component  You need to adjust your include path up one level    you don t need the c  by the way  your path is fine as is  just too deep

User · Answer

Try adding the drive letter   include path    c  xampplite php pear PEAR    also verify that PEAR php is actually there  it might be in  php  instead   include path    c  xampplite php

User · Answer

You need to fix your include path system variable to point to the correct location    To fix it edit the php ini file  In that file you will find a line that says   include path          You can find out what the location of php ini by running phpinfo   on a page   Fix the part of the line that says    xampplite php pear PEAR  to read  C  xampplite php pear   Make sure to leave the semi-colons before and or after the line in place   Restart PHP and you should be good to go  To restart PHP in IIS you can restart the application pool assigned to your site or  better yet  restart IIS all together

User · Answer

AS per point 1  your PEAR path is c  xampplite php pear   However  your path is pointing to  xampplite php pear PEAR  Putting the two one above the other you can clearly see one is too long   c  xampplite php pear    xampplite php pear PEAR  Your include path is set to go one PEAR too deep into the pear tree  The PEAR subfolder of the pear folder includes the PEAR component  You need to adjust your include path up one level    you don t need the c  by the way  your path is fine as is  just too deep

User · Answer

If you are using the portable XAMPP installation and Windows 7  and  like me have the version after they removed the XAMPP shell from the control panel none of the suggested answers here will do you much good as the packages will not install   The problem is with the config file  I found the correct settings after a lot of trial and error   Simply pull up a command window in the  xampp php directory and run  pear config-set doc dir   xampp php docs PEAR pear config-set cfg dir   xampp php cfg pear config-set data dir   xampp php data PEAR pear config-set test dir   xampp php tests pear config-set www dir   xampp php www   you will want to replace the     with the actual drive letter that your portable drive is running on at the moment  Unfortunately  this needs to be done any time this drive letter changes  but it did get the module I needed installed

User · Answer

You need to fix your include path system variable to point to the correct location    To fix it edit the php ini file  In that file you will find a line that says   include path          You can find out what the location of php ini by running phpinfo   on a page   Fix the part of the line that says    xampplite php pear PEAR  to read  C  xampplite php pear   Make sure to leave the semi-colons before and or after the line in place   Restart PHP and you should be good to go  To restart PHP in IIS you can restart the application pool assigned to your site or  better yet  restart IIS all together

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