Azure websites & MediaWiki: how to enable emails s

Question

for example, when user creates an account, resets password etc.

First step is to set mail server credentials in LocalSettings.php file, as per this document: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual_talk:$wgSMTP#Example_using_Google_Mail

But after you do this, you will get "PEAR mail package is not installed" error message. How to solve this?

Answer 1

Turns out it's relatively simple:

1. Make sure your mail server credentials are correct
2. FTP to root folder and rename index.php into index.php.old - otherwise it gets overridden
3. Install PEAR manager, using "Hosted website" workflow
4. Rename pear.conf into pear.ini - otherwise you won't be able to start web manager
5. Create .user.ini file in your root folder and add your physical path to pear into *include_path* variable - kudoz to this article: http://chrisrisner.com/Using-PEAR-with-Windows-Azure-Websites-and-PHP

6. Open web manager (http://domain.name/index.php) and install the following packages in PEAR (not sure if some of them are redundant but after I installed them, i was able to connect to GMAIL server)

   • Auth_SASL
   • Mail
   • Mail_Mime
   • Net_SMTP

7. Rename index.php into index.php.pear, and go-pear.php into go-pear.php.pear, and rename index.php.old back to index.php

8. Try to register - you should get an email