Problems discovering channel in PEAR

Question

im having this problem. everytime i try to install something using channels i get this error:

Discovering channel pear.phing.info over http:// failed with message: channel-add: adding Channel "pear.phing.info" to registry failed 
Trying to discover channel pear.phing.info over https:// instead 
Discovery of channel "pear.phing.info" failed (channel-add: Cannot open "https://pear.phing.info/channel.xml" (Connection to `pear.phing.info:443' failed: Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?)) 

im not beyind any proxy, openssl is on using windows and wamp server

any ideas???

thanks

Answer 1

Set the proxy and everything should work:

pear config-set http_proxy http://login:pwd@server:port

Answer 2

It seems like its using PHP to make the connection. You need to make sure that openssl is enabled in your php.ini file.

Uncomment the line: extension=php_openssl.dll in php.ini

OR

For mac users you will need to use macports: sudo port install php5-openssl

Answer 3

I had the same problem. No Proxy, OpenSSL enabled. I ended up with installing it "the new way": Just download the PHAR package, which also contains all dependencies. Run it via php phpunit.phar.

Answer 4

I've got the same error when trying to install phpunit In my php.ini file
i've uncommented the line bellow by removing ";"
;extension=php_openssl.dll
Saved changes. And then i've run in cmd :

pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
pear upgrade-all
pear update-channels

Same problem.

So i've downloaded the phpunit.phar from this link and then i've run in cmd

php phpunit.phar

Now it's working :)