How to use PEAR behind proxy?

Question

Initially I used the following with no success;

export http_proxy=http://username@password:host:port 

Worth noting I don't get a connection error directly, instead;

[root@pal ~]# sudo pear info  PHP_CodeSniffer-1.2.1 No information found for `PHP_CodeSniffer-1.2.1' 

Answer 1

Instead of using the system's http_proxy, set the proxy directly in pear's config;

pear config-set http_proxy http://username:password@yourproxy:80 

Answer 2

You also may have an issue with your sudo user having different configuration from your user for pear.

If you make this :

pear config-set http_proxy http://username:password@yourproxy:80 

Then

sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com 

You have change user and the proxy is still not set.

So use the appropriate command:

sudo pear config-set http_proxy http://username:password@yourproxy:80 

(Issue spotted on Ubuntu 11.04 fresh install)