You need to fix your include_path system variable to point to the correct location. To fix it edit the php.ini file. In that file you will fin...

If you are using the portable XAMPP installation and Windows 7, and, like me have the version after they removed the XAMPP shell from the control p...

I tried all of the other answers first but none of them seemed to work so I set the pear path statically in the pear config file C:\xampp\php\pear\...

I fixed avast deletes your server.php in your directory so disable the antivirus check the (server.php) file on your laravel folder server.php <?...

AS per point 1, your PEAR path is c:\xampplite\php\pear\ However, your path is pointing to \xampplite\php\pear\PEAR Putting the two one above the o...

On Windows use the Xampp shell (there is a 'Shell' button in your XAMPP control panel) then cd php\pear to go to 'C:\xampp\php\pear' then type pear

Try adding the drive letter: include_path='.;c:\xampplite\php\pear\PEAR' also verify that PEAR.php is actually there, it might be in \php\ instead...

Another gotcha for this kind of problem: avoid running pear within a Unix shell (e.g., Git Bash or Cygwin) on a Windows machine. I had the same pro...