Comments on: Installing PEAR on Godaddy shared accounts

By: Zeeshan

Zeeshan — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:59:17 +0000

GOT AN ERROR, HERE ARE THE DETAILS:

Starting installation …
Loading zlib: ok

Bootstrapping Installer……………….
Bootstrapping PEAR.php…………(remote) “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd”>

An Exception Has Occurred
Unknown location: /pear/pear-core/branches/PEAR_1_4/PEAR.php

HTTP Response Status
404 Not Found

——————————————————————————–

ok
Bootstrapping Archive/Tar.php…………(remote)
Fatal error: Class ‘PEAR’ not found in /home/content/60/7604660/html/temp/Archive/Tar.php on line 57

By: GeorgeR

GeorgeR — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:49:47 +0000

Well, after reading through all the posts and not getting any of this to run, referred to Jonathan’s Post #10 and made sure the path pointed to my pear_admin folder on the go-pear setup screen. Apparently, the .conf file in my root directory was not pointing to the correct folder and causing a server 500 error – or so I think. I did several installs with different fold options and no wonder I had paths pointing left/right/up/down… no wonder it did not work.

Once I reinstalled and followed the rest of the setup procedures, probably with the help of all other fixes posted, I finally got mine to run as promised.

I am happy. Thanks to all who took the time to help everyone else.

George

By: Alok

Alok — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 07:38:37 +0000

The instructions works only if you have a linux hosting with godaddy and not with Windows hosting. Pear gets downloaded but when it comes to execution, it is not possible to give permissions to the folders created.

Alok

By: PRCJKC

PRCJKC — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:52:49 +0000

I wanted to say thank you to everyone. I know there were a few hiccups along the way, but through everyone’s responses I was able to get it to work.

Going to the http://www.htaccesstools.com/htpasswd-generator/ site to generate my .htpasswd content saved the day. (Rob you may want to try that if you haven’t got it working yet.)

By: WSG

WSG — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:37:32 +0000

I tried to install go-pear.php on a shared godaddy hosting account but got the following error:
“Sorry! Your PHP version is too new (5.2.17) for this go-pear. Instead use http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar for a more stable and current version of go-pear, more suited to your PHP version.”

Anyone have an idea what to do with the ‘go-pear.phar’ file? I can’t just rename it and run it as a php file.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
WSG

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:51:29 +0000

Hi, I’m getting a 401 Authorization Required error. (The server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password), or your browser doesn’t understand how to supply the credentials required.)

For testing purposes, I put in the user and password that is being used on this site, but authorization keeps failing. Anyone have any ideas?

By: LoGiX

LoGiX — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 10:20:06 +0000

Hi guys, your post is so very helpful in installing and configuring PEAR.

I’ve got PEAR running on my godaddy.com shared hosting, and also the Mail module. But when I tried to send a mail through my gmail account, its returning the error status:
“Failed to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: Connection refused (code: -1, response: )]”

Then I figured out that its a problem if openssl is not present. But then, godaddy has already got openssl installed but still I’m getting this error. Anyhelp would be really helpful.

Regards,
LoGiX

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:01:00 +0000

Thanks so much Shawn! That got it to work – I was putting in the full path in place of the @pear_dir@ on line 8 of the index.php in the pear_admin folder:

‘.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/home/content/s/a/m/sample/html/PEAR’

all that is needed is:

‘/home/content/s/a/m/sample/html/PEAR’

I hope this helps others reading this blog!

enthusiastically,
mark h

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 21:44:58 +0000

I was having the same problem as you and was waiting for someone to reply. But I figured it out.
Set the $pear_dir variable to where your PEAR folder is(the default location didn’t work for me):
$pear_dir = /home/content/S/a/html/PEAR

Then accommodate the rest of your code accordingly. This is what my index.php file looks like:

I hope this helps…

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:50:50 +0000

I wasn’t able to get the htaccess file to work but I figured out why:
If you copy and paste the htaccess contents in this post, delete the “quotes” and retype them in. They weren’t showing up as real quotes in my file, just characters that looked like quotes.