PEAR directory problem on Windows

Question

I\'ve downloaded the ZIP archive of PHP and extracted it under my profile. I then needed some PEAR packages. go-pear.bat apparently installed PEAR just fine, I just

Answer 1

If your PHP installation has been done somewhere else other than the C:\ drive, then “pear install” command may throw errors.

Example: Here in my case, the xampp has been installed into E:\ drive and the “pear install” throws error.

Error got when I run the command. This also happen for PHPDocumentor Solution: I get into the “pear” directory and checked config values set for different pear related directories. All were set to C:\ drive by default. So, we need to change those settings to correct path. Open the command prompt in "Run as administrator" mode.

Pear default setting Now change five path in xampp like this

E:\xampp\php>
E:\xampp\php>pear config-set doc_dir E:\xampp\php\pear

If you are using C drive and getting the same error then also the above statement will remain same just replace the drive name E:\ to C:\ vice versa. example for C: drive

C:\xampp\php>pear config-set doc_dir C:\xampp\php\pear

Then press enter it will display a msg of config-set succeeded

Like this you have to enter 5 commands.

E:\xampp\php>pear config-set doc_dir E:\xampp\php\pear

config-set succeeded

E:\xampp\php>pear config-set cfg_dir E:\xampp\php\pear

config-set succeeded

E:\xampp\php>pear config-set data_dir E:\xampp\php\pear

config-set succeeded

E:\xampp\php>pear config-set test_dir E:\xampp\php\pear

config-set succeeded

E:\xampp\php>pear config-set www_dir E:\xampp\php\pear

config-set succeeded

Finally installed pear