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

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Johan Sandblom <js at ndblom.se>:

> 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!

You should put that in the wiki!

-- 
Jan Schneider
The Horde Project
http://www.horde.org/