I recently decided to start a project in Zend Framework 2 and was having trouble getting it to run on a HostGator shared server.
By default, HostGator's shared servers run in PHP 5.2.2 and if you upload the ZF2 Skeleton Application, it will not run out of the box.
Also, if you happen to have SSH access to your HG Shared account (You usually have to request it), you won't be able to run .PHAR files because the CLI version of PHP is also 5.2.2.
Luckily, I got it to work... see below.
Your cPanel account must possess SSH access in order to use Composer.
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. Composer will manage the dependencies you require on a project by project basis. This means that Composer will pull in all the required libraries, dependencies and manage them all in one place.
There is an option in Hostgator CPanel. Just go to PHP Configuration and choose one of PHP versions. Now you can choose between 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5.
First off, you can enable PHP 5.3 on HostGator on a directory level basis. Simply add the following line to the .htaccess
file in your public directory:
AddType application/x-httpd-php53 .php
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Ba-Da-Bing! Now you can run your PHP 5.3 applications!
Oh, but wait! You have SSH access and want to use PHP Composer?
If you log in via SSH and try the following command: # php composer.phar install
you will get the following error: Fatal error: Class 'Phar' not found in...
This is because HostGator's # php
command runs in 5.2.2. To run in 5.3, you need to provide the full path to the 5.3 binary.
Here's the working command:# /opt/php53/bin/php composer.phar install
I was so excited that I got this working that I figured I would share!
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