Pear: “go-pear.phar” Does Not Have a Signature
As I was trying to install Pear for my WampServer 2.0i installation today, I encountered a problem. When I ran the typical “go-pear.bat” script – I was hit with this message:
Solution
Thankfully, after searching around – I found the solution from a blogger named Latyr, who blogs in French. Since I speak French, I thought I should offer his solution in English. I expanded it into a few steps, for those that aren’t familiar with WAMP and PHP.
1) Locate the “php.ini” file. In my case, I found it at this path:
C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\php.ini
Don’t use the WAMP system tray icon to edit this file. It didn’t work when I tried – you have to manually locate it.
2) Find the following line, in bold:
; http://php.net/phar.require-hash
;phar.require_hash = On
3) Uncomment the “;phar.require_hash = On”line by removing the semi-colon.
4) Change “On” to “Off”.
; http://php.net/phar.require-hash
phar.require_hash = Off
5) Save the file.
After I performed those steps, “go-pear.bat” began working normally again.
In case you’re wondering about the phar.require_hash option we just disabled, here’s the php.net description:
This option will force all opened Phar archives to contain some kind of signature (currently MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512 are supported), and will refuse to process any Phar archive that does not contain a signature.
See Also
The solution offered here was made possible by Latyr’s original blog post, entitled “Bug dans PHP5.3.0 Pear.bat”.
Thanks alot! Somebody offerred your solution to me at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1652941/why-am… and it solved my hour long dilemma! Thank you for looking out for your fellow programmer and taking the time to post the solution you found for us English speakers!
:) Happy to help
Thanks a lot. It works.
Great! Thanks a lot!
1) Locate the “php.ini” file. In my
case, I found it at this path:
C:wampbinphpphp5.3.0php.ini
Don’t use the WAMP system tray icon to
edit this file. It didn’t work when I
tried – you have to manually locate
it.
this is very important.
thanks
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Thanks Bro!
Wonderful! Exactly what I needed
many thanks brutha
Thanks :)
THANX,
Great Work
Great! Thanks a lot!
I’ve been close to sobbing for the last couple of hours in desperation stuck on this. Thank you so so much!!
Despite this being a bit of an older post, there’s a reason why you can’t use the system tray icon to load the php.ini: there are two php.ini files.
When you load the php.ini file from the toolbar tray, it loads the php.ini file from wamp/apache/apache2.2.11/bin
When you execute php scripts or the .bat files for pear, it loads the php.ini found in your php directory.
I ran into this problem trying to activate certain extensions.
Thanks man, this is my second attempt at getting this up and running! I really appreciate this!
Thank you so much!!!
Thanks heaps.
Thanks a lot. It worked…
Thanks a lot man….
Crazy! And so easy! :-) Thank you.
Thanks Alot it worked..
Worked like a charm, thanks a bunch!
Thanks a lot you save my time
I did exactly what You said and I still have the same error :/
I have WAMP 2.1 with PHP v5.3.5
good guide!!!
Worked. Thanks a lot !
Thanks, it solved the problem.
gracias capo.
muchas gracias!!!!
thx so much, this saved me a headache
Worked for me too! Thanks. :)
tnx man !!
bonjour, javais le meme probleme, et jai modifié php.ini
mais rien na changé :(
ROCK & ROLL! Thank you! And thank you Google for indexing this page..
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cool man!! Thanks for you translate!!