A new feature in cPanel 11/x3 is the PEAR module installer that allows users to install their own PEAR modules locally in their account. I’ve heard that a lot of servers with existing PHP installations have had problems getting this to work, and instead are prompted with this error:
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.3
Content-type: text/htmlParse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /usr/local/cpanel/base/frontend/x3/module_installers/live_install.html on line 8
/usr/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin
As far as I know there are two causes for this problem:
1. /usr/bin/php is missing or is not compiled with PEAR or CLI. Some servers have a CGI and CLI binary installed, so you’ll need to symlink /usr/local/bin/php to /usr/bin/php:
ln -s /usr/local/bin/php /usr/bin/php
2. Your PHP installation is compiled without CLI support (–disable-cli), which is common when compiling PHP as a CGI binary or for suPHP. If you have an installation with CLI enabled you will need to link that binary to /usr/bin/php, otherwise compile a second copy with the command line interface enabled.