Trouble with Pear in XAMPP

Question

I'm trying to install PhpDocumentor 2, and after following the steps for the installation through PEAR, I get the following message:

PEAR_Config::writeConfigFile fopen('C:\Windows\pear.ini','w') failed (fopen(C:\Windows\pear.ini): failed to open stream: Permission denied)

So I checked the pear configuarion: $ pear config-show and see that things are all over the place. Any idea on how to correct this?

Also, the pear.ini file is nowhere to be found.

Answer 1

You cannot fix the pear.ini-in-c:\windows problem unfortunately.

A solution is to run the terminal as administrator, and run the pear install command in it.

If you want to modify the locations, use pear config-set key value.