PEAR on Windows: How to change pear.ini location
问题 I am trying to install a PEAR package into my recent XAMPP PHP installation (PHP 5.3.1) on Windows 7 64-bit. Installing new packages fails because PEAR tries to access c:\windows\pear.ini instead of the existing c:\path_to_xampp\php\pear.ini . This results (rightly) in a permission denied error. I am logged on as Administrator, but the Windows directory enjoys some additional protection IIRC. Rather than fiddle with write rights in the windows directory, I would like to use the existing pear