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Installing Zend Framework on a Web Hosting Provider

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Please help the community by sharing your successful experiences with various web hosting providers using the Zend Framework.
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This page is about installing Zend Framework on a hosting account—not which hosting providers do/don't/might support the latest required version of PHP. Please use Zend Framework Web Hosts for that instead.

It's important to be aware that most web hosts run old versions of PHP. If you are in a situation where this is the case and you cannot compile your own version of PHP, trying sending the PHP changelog to your web host and encourage them to upgrade to the current stable version of PHP. For more information, see Zend Framework Web Hosts.

If you are looking for a new host and want one that will run Zend Framework, see Zend Framework Web Hosts.

For reference purposes, Zend also has a list of providers hosting PHP services, although some might not support the requirements of the ZF.

Popular Web Hosting Control Panels

cPanel

Ensim

Web hosting providers using Ensim Pro in high security mode generally support the use of custom-compiled versions of PHP, provided they also allow access to gcc and a shell account.

Plesk

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  1. Sep 14, 2011

    Elisamuel Resto

    Plesk, cPanel or Ensim are not web hosting companies, they are just control panels that companies use.

  2. Aug 08, 2006

    Mike Coughlin

    GoDaddy is a large, popular web host provider, which I would add to this list. GoDaddy supports both PHP 4 & 5.

    1. Nov 14, 2007

      Michelangelo van Dam

      As far as I know, GoDaddy only supports php 5 in FastCGI mode (correct me if I'm wrong).

  3. Feb 10, 2008

    Michael Ray

    i would not recommend godaddy for hosting.

  4. Feb 27, 2010

    Lee Jones

    I couldn't find directions here on setting up a Go Daddy account with Zend, so here goes.

    Setting up Go Daddy with Zend Framework

    DOWNLOAD ZEND

    1)     Download Zend Framework from http://www.zend.com/community/downloads and extract the contents of the download to your local disk.

    2)     Rename the directory 'ZendFramework-x.x.x' to 'zend'. This directory should contain a subdirectory named 'library'.

    TELL PHP WHERE ZEND LIVES

    1)     Get a Go Daddy Linux hosting account, set up your hosting.

    2)     FTP the 'zend' folder as '/zend' onto your hosting account. I would recommend you transfer the files in binary mode (BIN).

    3)     Display the PHP information. Create a file 'info.php' with the following line in it:
         <?php phpinfo(); ?>

    4)     Visit your site or preview site and open info.php - make a note of the PHP version at the top, the "DOCUMENT_ROOT" value, and the "include_path" value.

    5)     By default, Go Daddy installs PHP 5 for your Linux hosting. If you are running PHP 5, copy your /php.ini file to /php5.ini

    6)     Edit /php.ini or /php5.ini depending of your PHP version. Add the following line:
         include_path = [value of DOCUMENT_ROOT]/zend/library
    For example, if DOCUMENT_ROOT was /home/content/a/b/c/leejones/html then you would add the line
         include_path = /home/content/a/b/c/leejones/html/zend/library

    7)     Visit your site again and open info.php again. Make a note of the "DOCUMENT_ROOT", "include_path" value and "Loaded Configuration File" value.

    8)     Test Zend with one of the usage examples from http://framework.zend.com/search?query=usage+example