Getting PEAR to work on XAMPP (Apache/MySQL stack on Windows)

Question

I\'m trying to install Laconica, an open-source Microblogging application on my Windows development server using XAMPP as per the instructions provided.

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Answer 1

Try adding the drive letter:

include_path='.;c:\xampplite\php\pear\PEAR'

also verify that PEAR.php is actually there, it might be in \php\ instead:

include_path='.;c:\xampplite\php'

Answer 2

I tried all of the other answers first but none of them seemed to work so I set the pear path statically in the pear config file

C:\xampp\php\pear\Config.php

find this code:

if (!defined('PEAR_INSTALL_DIR') || !PEAR_INSTALL_DIR) {
    $PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = PHP_LIBDIR . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'pear';
} 
else {
    $PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = PEAR_INSTALL_DIR;
}

and just replace it with this:

$PEAR_INSTALL_DIR = "C:\\xampp\\php\\pear";

I restarted apache and used the command:

pear config-all 

make sure the all of the paths no longer start with C:\php\pear