PEAR Log Error on Dreamhost Installation

[NUCats]

Hi!

I'm trying to install SwiftRiver on Dreamhost and ran into the PHP PEAR Logging Error:

PHP PEAR Logging

Sorry, I can't access the PEAR Logging framework, I tried 'include_once("Log.php")' but it returned false. You need to ensure that the PEAR Logging system is installed andincluded.

Any idea what I need to do to fix this?  I'm not familiar with Command Line.

Thanks!

[Charl van Niekerk]

2011/9/6 NUCats <ryan...@gmail.com>:

On the command line, you just need to do the following:

pear install Log

Step-by-step instructions for Debian/Ubuntu can be found here:

https://github.com/ushahidi/Sweeper/blob/master/deploy/debian.sh

Hope this helps!

[NUCats]

I keep getting this error:

WARNING: configuration download directory "/tmp/pear/download" is not writeable.  Change download_dir config variable to a writeable dir to avoid this warning

WARNING: channel "pear.php.net" has updated its protocols, use "pear channel-update pear.php.net" to update

Cannot install, php_dir for channel "pear.php.net" is not writeable by the current user

Any help?

Thanks!

[Charl van Niekerk]

2011/9/7 NUCats <ryan...@gmail.com>:

Which operating system are you currently setting this up on? Never had
any trouble with Debian myself, maybe you could try that instead? A
lot of distros like openSUSE, Mandriva etc have very strange
permissions problems as they are primarily aimed at the desktop
market.

[NUCats]

I'm installing it on my Dreamhost account (or trying to!)  It runs Debian Linux but I keep getting that error if I run "pear install Log"

Any tips?

THANK YOU for all your help!

[megan hines]

Have you checked to make sure the directory exists? that error
sometimes means, hey, there is not a place here I need. make sure it
exists and that it isn't read-only. I think I had the same problem
but it was fine after I created the destination it wanted.

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[Charl van Niekerk]

2011/9/7 NUCats <ryan...@gmail.com>:

> I'm installing it on my Dreamhost account (or trying to!)  It runs Debian
> Linux but I keep getting that error if I run "pear install Log"
> Any tips?

Just to confirm, you are executing this as root, right?

[Charl van Niekerk]

2011/9/7 megan hines <megan...@gmail.com>:

> Have you checked to make sure the directory exists?  that error
> sometimes means, hey, there is not a place here I need.  make sure it
> exists and that it isn't read-only.  I think I had the same problem
> but it was fine after I created the destination it wanted.

Good suggestion, just to be sure, you can execute this:

mkdir -p /tmp/pear/download

[NUCats]

I ran mkdir -p /tmp/pear/download and it gave me no response.

I then ran pear install Log and it gave the same set of errors.

Sorry I'm such a beginner.  How do I check that I'm executing this as root?  Also, how do I make sure that it is writable and isn't read-only?

Thank you again!

[Charl van Niekerk]

2011/9/7 NUCats <ryan...@gmail.com>:

> I ran mkdir -p /tmp/pear/download and it gave me no response.

It would do that in either case so that is probably a positive thing.

> I then ran pear install Log and it gave the same set of errors.

Definitely sounds like file permissions issues then...

> Sorry I'm such a beginner.  How do I check that I'm executing this as root?

You can just type:

echo $USER

This will print out the name of the user you are currently logged in as.

>  Also, how do I make sure that it is writable and isn't read-only?

You can do:

ls -l /tmp/pear/download

This will give you the file permissions on the left and the owner user+group.

[NUCats]

So a bit of an update...

I was able to install pear and pear logging at home/USERNAME/pear (This is on shared hosting)

But...

I still get the Pear Log error:

Sorry, I can't access the PEAR Logging framework, I tried 'include_once("Log.php")' but it returned false. You need to ensure that the PEAR Logging system is installed andincluded.

Do I need to update the SwiftRiver config file to point to this new location of Pear?  If so, what do I need to edit?  (Please use small words!)

Thanks!

[Charl van Niekerk]

2011/9/9 NUCats <ryan...@gmail.com>:

> So a bit of an update...
> I was able to install pear and pear logging at home/USERNAME/pear (This is
> on shared hosting)

Shared hosting is not recommended for running Sweeper for a variety of
reasons, but I guess it's worth giving it a shot.

> But...
> I still get the Pear Log error:
> Sorry, I can't access the PEAR Logging framework, I tried
> 'include_once("Log.php")' but it returned false. You need to ensure that the
> PEAR Logging system is installed andincluded.
>
> Do I need to update the SwiftRiver config file to point to this new location
> of Pear?  If so, what do I need to edit?  (Please use small words!)

You will need to add the path to the above directory to your PHP
include path so that PHP knows where to go look for the files:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.include-path

It's been a while since I've done this myself, but you should be able
to do this using a .htaccess file if you're on shared hosting.