I’ve finally finished setting up a PEAR Channel for UNL using Chiara_PEAR_Server.

http://pear.unl.edu/

The process is quite complex, at least with the current state of things. Greg Beaver has built a sample PEAR Server installable using PEAR.

The simple way to set up a PEAR Server using available packages should be:

sudo pear channel-discover pear.chiaraquartet.net
sudo pear install -f –alldeps chiara/Chiara_PEAR_Server
sudo pear run-scripts chiara/Chiara_PEAR_Server

Then answer all the questions and it should create the Database, Tables, Admin user login, and write out a file to your document root.

In fact there is a ‘Tutorial’ out there by Tobias Schlitt that basically states exactly that. But I had some trouble along the way.

Changes:

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< return false;
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> return $a;
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< if (!$this->lastversion) {
---
> //if (!$this->lastversion) {
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< $dbo->channel = $answers['name'];
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> $dbo->channel = $this->channel;
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< $dbo->channel = $answers['name'];
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> $dbo->channel = $this->channel;
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< }
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> //}
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> /*
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> */
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< $phpdir = str_replace('\\', '/', 'C:\php5\pear');
< $datadir = str_replace('\\', '/', 'C:\php5\pear\data');
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> $phpdir = str_replace('\\', '/', '/usr/local/php5/lib/php');
> $datadir = str_replace('\\', '/', '/usr/local/php5/lib/php/data');


With those fixes, I was finally able to get Chiara_PEAR_Server working.