Trying to Install Pear

[sgoodman]

Greetings,

I'm trying to install Pear using these instructions:

Manual :: Installation of a local PEAR copy on a shared host

However, after it is installed, the PEAR Package Manager gives me the following error:

Warning: realpath() [function.realpath]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/tmp) is not within the allowed path(s): (/var/www/domains/popupsinc.com/:/usr/share/phpmyadmin:/etc/phpmyadmin:/var/www/myfilemanager:/var/www/myinstaller:/usr/local/lib/php) in /var/www/domains/popupsinc.com/docs/mypear/PEAR/System.php on line 474

Are there any server restrictions that would prevent Pear from being installed? Otherwise, if anyone had some troubleshooting tips, I would appreciate it.

I'm on the Basic Linux Hosting Plan.

Thanks,
Shane.

[nickh]

Hi Shane. That error's occurring because something is trying to perform a filesystem operation within /tmp/ . For security reasons, shared hosting accounts aren't allowed to touch /tmp/ .

If you search Google for "pear open_basedir /tmp", you'll get a bunch of results. These two in particular helped me solve the problem:

• Bug #13167 :: go-pear fails to install under open_basedir with no temp. directory
• open_basedir: allowed path not recognized

All you need to do is modify index.php in your PEAR directory so that the first lines look like this:

<?php
putenv('TMPDIR=' . $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/temp/');

Cheers,
Nick

[sgoodman]

Hi Nick,

I inserted this line of code:

putenv('TMPDIR=' . ini_get("upload_tmp_dir")); 

And the error messages went away.

Thanks for your help. I've been working on this problem for a long time.

Sincerely,
Shane.

[nickh]

You're welcome, mate. I'm glad to hear it's working now.