I'm trying to save an old, failing web-server setup consisting of Fedora, PHP, PEAR, and Oracle.
With some difficulty (I'm very new to all four), I've been able to set up something similar on a newer system. I used Fedora 19, PHP 5.5.4 (with Apache 2.4.6), and Oracle 11g.
That just leaves PEAR.
Now, from what I understand, PEAR is some PHP code, like a library, which PHP Web Applications can use to save time from having to code them again - database connection, for example.
But I don't know what to do with it, or even how to get it. Copy paste from my old system? Download using the CLI using yum? Are there packages I need to be aware of, or is it just a one download-one install thing?
For instance, a basic PHP webpage with the following code:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
works fine on the new server setup, so I'm assured that everything else is working. But when I try to load the PHP files from the other server, it returns an Internal Server Error. I checked the error_log files under /etc/httpd/logs, and most of the errors appear as below:
PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required 'MDB2.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/html/hrweb/includes/functions.php on line 4
EDIT:
According to the PEAR Website, PEAR is included upon the installation of PHP, though not all modules / packages are there. Typing in the command pear in the CLI does confirm it is installed, though it does not help the issue.
I got the MDB2 package via pear install MDB2, though apparently, MDB2_Driver_oci8 is required. Whenever I try to download that, I get the following:
"MDB2_Driver_oci8" version "1.4.1" does not have REST XML available
In addition to this, I also tried to download OLE, which gets me the following:
No releases available for package "pear.php.net/OLE"
This was also previously the error of trying to download MDB2_Driver_oci8.
Thanks.