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

Answer 1

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)