phpDocumentor: pear install not working

Hi, pear channel-discover pear.phpdoc.org is not working for me – here is the failure message:

Discovering channel pear.phpdoc.org over http:// failed with message: channel-add: Cannot open “http://pear.phpdoc.org/channel.xml” (Connection to pear.phpdoc.org:443' failed: ) Trying to discover channel pear.phpdoc.org over https:// instead Discovery of channel "pear.phpdoc.org" failed (channel-add: Cannot open "https://pear.phpdoc.org/channel.xml" (Connection topear.phpdoc.org:443’ failed: )) Roberts-MBP:~ rcrooks$ pear channel-discover pear.phpdoc.org Discovering channel pear.phpdoc.org over http:// failed with message: channel-add: Cannot open “http://pear.phpdoc.org/channel.xml” (Connection to pear.phpdoc.org:443' failed: ) Trying to discover channel pear.phpdoc.org over https:// instead Discovery of channel "pear.phpdoc.org" failed (channel-add: Cannot open "https://pear.phpdoc.org/channel.xml" (Connection topear.phpdoc.org:443’ failed: ))

I’m not a PHP pro by any means, so not sure where to go from here.

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After some more experimentation, I found that the following workaround works:

wget https://pear.phpdoc.org/channel.xml
pear channel-add ./channel.xml
pear install https://pear.phpdoc.org/get/phpDocumentor-2.9.0.tgz

My current conclusion would be that the PEAR installer does not seem to like redirects from http to https?

mvriel on Jan 9, 2020

After some more experimentation, I found that the following workaround works:
wget https://pear.phpdoc.org/channel.xml
pear channel-add ./channel.xml
pear install https://pear.phpdoc.org/get/phpDocumentor-2.9.0.tgz
My current conclusion would be that the PEAR installer does not seem to like redirects from http to https?

this worked for me. Thank you!

ArthurYdalgo on Jun 12, 2020

@jaapio Thanks, tried with sudo but still get Cannot open “http://pear.phpdoc.org/channel.xml” (Connection to `pear.phpdoc.org:443’ failed: )

If I try to ping that address, it also fails.

rcrooks on Nov 11, 2016

@Hector-Aguilar-STD weird, you are right, but that folder is writeable by most other things. Interesting. Well it’s mostly installed now I guess, I’ll just need to play with things to get the permissions right.

firrae on Jan 9, 2020