PEAR

[Yamikuronue]

I have a site I wrote so long ago it might as well be someone else's code. I am trying to bring it back online on a new server after the old one went kerblooey, using a backup.

I have dumped the php files into the new server, restored the database, set up a new apache config, and voila! It... doesn't run, because I used pear and HTML//Template//IT.

okay, whatever. sudo apt-get install pear, and sudo pear install HTML_Template_IT

Site gives me a 500 still:

[Sun Sep 04 15:33:50 2016] [error] [client 74.219.227.230] PHP Warning:  require_once(HTML\\Template\\IT.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/Sites/SiteName/index.php on line 2
[Sun Sep 04 15:33:50 2016] [error] [client 74.219.227.230] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'HTML\\Template\\IT.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /var/www/Sites/SiteName/index.php on line 2

it should be able to read it, given my /usr/share/php looks like

total 120
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root    4096 Sep  4 15:11 Archive
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root    4096 Sep  4 15:11 Console
drwxrwxrwx  3 root root    4096 Sep  4 15:11 data
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      20 Jun 25 11:33 doc -> ../doc/php-pear/PEAR
drwxrwxrwx  3 root webftp  4096 Sep  4 15:11 HTML
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root    4096 Sep  4 15:11 OS
drwxrwxrwx 11 root root    4096 Sep  4 15:11 PEAR
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    1087 Jun 25 11:16 PEAR5.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   14507 Jun 25 11:16 pearcmd.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   33852 Jun 25 11:16 PEAR.php
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root    1004 Jun 25 11:16 peclcmd.php
drwxrwxrwx  3 root root    4096 Sep  4 15:11 Structures
-rwxrwxrwx  1 root root   20833 Jun 25 11:16 System.php
drwxrwxrwx  3 root root    4096 Sep  4 15:11 test
drwxrwxrwx  2 root root    4096 Sep  4 15:11 XML

(HTML contains Template which contains the following)

total 72
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root webftp  2227 Sep  4 15:11 IT_Error.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root webftp 36606 Sep  4 15:11 IT.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root webftp 29555 Sep  4 15:11 ITX.php

But nothing happens. How do I fix this?

[Arantor]

@Yamikuronue the require_once has backslashes in it... PHP does normally fix both \ and / to work as \ on Windows but I don't know if it does it the other way around on Linux.

[asdf]

@Yamikuronue said in PEAR:

pear

Glad it's pretty much dead now.

[Yamikuronue]

@Arantor This was hosted on linux before, and I haven't touched it in years. Maybe a php version mismatch though?

(It was probably developed on windows, but it did used to run on linux)

[Yamikuronue]

@Arantor said in PEAR:

the require_once has backslashes in it...

alright now I'm second guessing myself, let me just try...

goddammit...

fuck you, php, what the actual fuck. Maybe I had a newer version on my old server? anyway that worked.

[asdf]

@Yamikuronue said in PEAR:

fuck you, php, what the actual fuck.

Welcome to the wonderful world of PHP

[Arantor]

@Yamikuronue this is why PEAR is best avoided.

[Yamikuronue]

I think this backup was taken just before I migrated to linux.

My database connections have all kinds of funky case folding. CREATE VIEW Users AS select * from users FTW.

[Yamikuronue]

@Arantor Yeah, I have backups of this site going back to.... 2008? Thereabouts? I'm proud I used a templating engine at all >.>

[flabdablet]

@Arantor said in PEAR:

PHP does normally fix both \ and / to work as \ on Windows

I don't know whether PHP does anything special in this case, but for the record, \ and / have always been interchangeable in pathnames passed to any DOS or Windows API. Even in command lines, / and \ are still equivalent provided the shell can be persuaded not to parse / as a switch prefix.

So if you're building stuff that needs to be portable, and it has relative pathnames embedded in it, just use / for all pathname separators. As a bonus, it makes your pathnames look less retarded in languages that use \ for an escape prefix in string literals.

[Jarry]

@Yamikuronue
Why don't you take the oportunity and migrate it to mongodb ? I heard it's webscale

[Arantor]

@flabdablet I assumed it was PHP 'fixing' it since the last time I did anything with the Windows API, I never did file manipulation where I ever had the risk of / in it...

[LB_]

@flabdablet Only since Vista AFAIK, I think XP didn't like forward slashes. Maybe.

[flabdablet]

@LB_ said in PEAR:

Only since Vista AFAIK

Nope. It was in DOS, from the first version that implemented hierarchical directories (PC DOS 2.0).

[Yamikuronue]

What's this? Another backup drive? From 2 years later?

And what's this? THE SLASHES ARE THE OTHER WAY

fml. Couldn't I have found this before I manually fixed all of them?

[ScholRLEA]

<david-crusoe> It sounds to me like... ...the whole thing went PEAR shaped. </david-crusoe>

[PJH]

@ScholRLEA said in PEAR:

...the whole thing went PEAR shaped.

I'm torn between  and ...