Error after install crypt/HMAC.php

First, I would ssh in and double-check that your pear installation actually contains the crypt/HMAC files or that pear is actually installed in your include path at /usr/share/pear/php5.

You should be able to log in and type:

locate pear/Crypt/HMAC.php

If your pear files are installed, but your php.ini file is looking in the wrong place for them, you'll have to find and edit your php.ini file, to add the actual pear paths to the include_path directive (remember to seperate possible paths with a colon).

If that's not the problem, you might try checking the pear config, to see if _it_ knows where your php.ini file is.

you can check pear's config file by typing:
pear config-show

Check the "php.ini location" setting. If it's blank, or doesn't point to your php.ini file, you may have to fix it, which you can do by typing:
pear pear-config php_ini path/to/php.ini
(Where path/to/php.ini, obviously is the correct location of that file.)
What a pain, huh? Normally pear installs are pretty painless, but I had to go through all the above to get it working on my home system.

Two weeks of no activity.

Hello, I'm getting the same error message described above, and I tried the advice in the posting, but with no luck. I'm using shared hosting with hostmonster.com if that makes a difference (I don't have permissions to use SSH commands like "locate" and the "pear pear-config..." command seemed to execute fine, but the changes didn't stick since "pear config-show" still returns
php.ini location php_ini /usr/local/lib/php.ini)

Is there any way to get this working on shared hosting? I have installed the Crypt_HMAC using the cPanel.

Thanks for your help, anyone with expert knowledge.

I had to update the include_path in php.ini (and also configure php through cPanel to use the "single php.ini" option). I'm now on to the next error message that I'll write a separate post about.