Question

I know there are several threads on this already, but I’ve hit a brick wall and can’t find any threads with the same issue I now have. In a nutshell, my problem is that PEAR’s config is still set to the C:\Windows directory, where it always (correctly) fails due to permissions. I’ve added System environment variables as follows, so I don’t know why these seem to be getting ignored:

PHP_PEAR_BIN_DIR=C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4
PHP_PEAR_DATA_DIR=C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4\PEAR\data
PHP_PEAR_DOC_DIR=C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4\PEAR\docs
PHP_PEAR_INSTALL_DIR=C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4\pear
PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN=C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4\php.exe
PHP_PEAR_SYSCONF_DIR=C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4
PHP_PEAR_TEST_DIR=C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4\PEAR\tests

typical error is

C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.4>pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
PEAR_Config::writeConfigFile fopen('C:\Windows\pear.ini','w') failed (fopen(C:\Windows\pear.ini): failed to open stream:
 Permission denied)

My initial install commands were as follows:

php -d phar.require_hash=0 PEAR/go-pear.phar
pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
pear channel-discover components.ez.no
pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
pear install phpunit/PHPUnit

I’ve tried removing the install and starting from scratch, but still no dice. Anyone have any ideas on this?

Answer 1

Try to update your PEAR installation by requesting http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar in your browser and save the output to a local file go-pear.phar; then run php go-pear.phar from the CLI. This will let you reconfigure the paths and IIRC it will also create a reg file you can simply doubleclick to import the environment variables.

Also make sure to relog to your account when adding environment variables.