[horde] Installing horde without access to pear/php cli

[Johan Sandblom]

Vilius Šumskas <vilius at lnk.lt> writes:

>> >> Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > Please keep discussions on the list.
>> >> >
>> >> > Zitat von Johan Sandblom <js at ndblom.se>:
>> >> >
>> >> >> Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> writes:
>> >> >>
>> >> >>> Zitat von Johan Sandblom <js at ndblom.se>:
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>>> Hi. I am attempting to install horde on a webhost where SSH access
>> is
>> >> >>>> granted, but curiously PHP CLI access is not. Getting pear to install
>> >> >>>> was possible with some editing of files suggested by the PEAR
>> mailing
>> >> >>>> list. After that, installing horde/horde-role in the PEAR web
>> interface
>> >> >>>> was easy. However, the next step, running the post-install script
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> pear/PEAR/PEAR/Installer/Role/Horde/Role.php
>> >> >>>>
>> >> >>>> is impossible without access to PHP on the command line. Looking at
>> >> the
>> >> >>>> script it does not look like it does an inordinate amount of work, but
>> >> >>>> it is beyond me to figure out exactly what. Is it possible to edit the
>> >> >>>> appropriate configuration files manually, to achieve what the
>> >> >>>> post-install script does? If so, which are the appropriate files, and
>> >> >>>> what needs to be done?
>> >> >>>
>> >> >>> I don't know which files exactly you need to edit, but what the script
>> >> >>> does is to set the 'horde_dir' configuration variable for the
>> >> >>> pear.horde.org' channel in the 'user' configuration. This should
>> >> >>> theoretically also be possible through the PEAR web interface.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Yes, setting the directory was possible in the PEAR web
>> >> >> interface. I successfully installed horde/horde in
>> >> >> .../public_html/horde (or at least without error message). However,
>> >> >> pointing my browser to that address yields:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Warning: require_once(Horde/Autoloader/Default.php)
>> >> >> [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or
>> >> >> directory in
>> >> >> /.../public_html/horde/lib/core.php on
>> >> >> line 47
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required
>> >> >> 'Horde/Autoloader/Default.php'
>> >> >>
>> >>
>> (include_path='/storage/content/86/148886/ndblom.se/public_html/horde/
>> >> lib:.:/usr/lib64/php')
>> >> >> in /.../public_html/horde/lib/core.php
>> >> >> on line 47
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Any clues?
>> >> >
>> >> > Your include_path is incorrect. It doesn't point to your PEAR directory.
>> >> >
>> >> > --
>> >> > Jan Schneider
>> >> > The Horde Project
>> >> > http://www.horde.org/
>> >>
>> >> OK. I see three elements in this path, the first pointing to
>> >> '/.../public_html/horde/lib', the second to '.', and the last to
>> >> '/usr/lib64/php'. I assume the second one should be altered to
>> >> '/.../pear/PEAR'. I tried putting
>> >>
>> >> php_value include_path
>> >> "/.../public_html/horde/lib:/.../pear/PEAR:/usr/lib64/php"
>> >>
>> >> in
>> >>
>> >> /.../public_html/horde/.htaccess
>> >>
>> >> but with no effect, I get the same
>> >> error message, so this directive is apparently ignored.
>> >>
>> >> I am not very experienced in this regard. Anything else I can try?
>> >
>> > Do not modify current paths, just add a new one. Do not use relative paths.
>> Basically copy full variable from /etc/php.ini then add another ":" character
>> and then full path to your PEAR install.
>> >
>> > --
>> >    Vilius
>> 
>> I did. The '/.../' is just my way of deidentifying for the mailing
>> list. Any edits I try to make to the path using horde/.htaccess are
>> ignored. Can this be altered somehow within horde? Preferably without
>> altering all .php files ...
>
> Create horde.local.php in /horde/config/ folder, and use ini_set() to set it. Also check /horde/lib/core.php file for more hints.
>
> --  
>    Vilius

That worked! Thank you!

For documentation purposes, these are the steps to install PEAR and
horde on a host with no command line access to php or pear

1. get go-pear.php from http://pear.php.net/go-pear

2. edit that file so that the lines pointing to the bootstrap files
(around line 115) become

$bootstrap_files = array(
                         'PEAR.php'             => 'http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/pear-core/branches/PEAR_1_4/PEAR.php?view=co&pathrev=319707',
    'Archive/Tar.php'      => 'http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/packages/Archive_Tar/tags/Archive_Tar-1.3.7/Archive/Tar.php?view=co&pathrev=325163',
    'Console/Getopt.php'   => 'http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pear/pear-core/branches/PEAR_1_4/Console/Getopt.php?view=co&pathrev=319707',
    );
    
This is necessary because of the pear project to github. The new file
go-pear.phar does not include a web interface

3. make a directory that is not web-accessible eg PATH/pear

4. put the modified go-pear.php in your web-accessible pages eg
PATH/public_html and install pear in PATH/pear

5. copy index.php from PATH/pear to PATH/public_html and edit so that
$pear_dir = 'PATH/pear/PEAR'

6. navigate to that file and configure PEAR by adding channel
pear.horde.org and installing the packages enumerated in the horde
documentation: Crypt_Blowfish, Net_DNS2 and Services_Weather

7. install the package horde/horde_role

8. go to the configuration page of PEAR and edit the value of 'Base
Horde directory' to eg /PATH/public_html/horde

9. install the package horde/horde

10. navigate to your horde directory

11. if it does not work, create public_html/horde/config/horde.local.php
to contain

<?php
ini_set('include_path', '.:PATH/pear/PEAR:CURRENT_INCLUDE_PATH');

12. and there you go!

Thanks again, 

Johan


-- 
Johan Sandblom

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