I use Dreamhost for some of my personal sites and for some friends. Dreamhost's basic package is nothing too powerful, but I like them; they are cheap, responsive, responsible, green, and funny. I also love some Drush. But for the life of me, the newer versions of Drush were throwing weird errors, mostly involving syntax. But when I went into the code, I could not find any syntax errors. Some of the errors suggested I was using PHP4, but I was like "No, I am definitely using PHP5 with Dreamhost."
Apparently, I was wrong! Looking through the issue queue of Drush today, I came across this comment which explains how to manually use PHP5 for the Drush alias, and it occured to me that my host could be doing that. Searching the interwebs a little, this was the best documentation on Dreamhost's setup that I could find. Apparently, Dreamhost uses PHP4 for the command line by default.
So, I changed by alias definition in my .bash_profile file to:
And voila! Drush is working!!! Thanks to ericrdb and the wonderful developers of Drush.
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run php5 in the shell
You can run php5 by default for your shell with these commands:
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/packages/bin:$PATH"' > .bash_profile
mkdir -p packages/bin
ln -s /usr/local/php5/bin/php packages/bin/php
Basically, just need to softlink the php binary into the first directory that is in your PATH.
Hmm. I suppose I'll cross post this back to the original issue.
A few years ago, Dreamhost
A few years ago, Dreamhost was excellent. Good prices, good service, good uptime. Then, earlier previous year (2009), they seemed to be slipping. First, it was billing errors, then I had problems renewing my hosting. In the last four months of 2009, their servers have been down several hours a month during peak business hours. I run several sites, and all were messed up by server migrations and their other problems (which as annoying as it is, but especially in case of providing mp3 search service).
They are no longer very cheap, and their entertaining newsletters don't make up for their frustrating lack of reliability. Nothing personal, I just expressed my opinion.