[FIXED] How to get pear working on Azure website?

Issue

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I am trying to send mail with PEAR. The error message at http://modeldoc.azurewebsites.net/wiki/index.php?title=Special:RequestAccount is

Exception from line 268 of D:\home\site\wwwroot\wiki\includes\mail\UserMailer.php: PEAR mail package is not installed

What I did (on local linux machine)

php go-pear.phar.php 

This created a folder wiki/pear, with subfolders wiki/pear/share, wiki/pear/bin etc.

I added .user.ini in wiki/ with values

display_errors = On
upload_max_filesize = 10M
include_path=".;D:\home\site\wwwroot\wiki\pear\share\pear\PEAR"

I pushed the changes i.e. git add . git commit -m "add pear path" git push

but it didn't work. I also tried different paths in .user.ini

Solution

Remove the \PEAR from the include path.

The include path needs to be the one System.php is in - see http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.checking.php

Answered By - cweiske

Answer Checked By - Cary Denson (PHPFixing Admin)