Jeremy Heslop

I’ve had to search for setting this up so many times I figure I should write my own howto on setting up drush on 1and1 hosting packages. Because 1and1 only has php-cgi and not php-cli we will have to force the drush.php file to behave differently.

NOTE: This only works on 1and1 packages with ssh.

• First you will have to create a .profile file under your home directory with these contents:

  alias drush='/usr/local/bin/php5 ~/drush/drush.php'
export COLUMNS

• Download drush to your home directory if you already haven’t.
• Then you will have to add this to the top of the drush/drush.php file after the first < ?php:

  if (!defined('STDIN'))
{
define('STDIN', fopen('php://stdin', 'r'));
}
if (!defined('STDOUT'))
{
define('STDOUT', fopen('php://stdout', 'w'));
}
if (!defined('STDERR'))
{
define('STDERR', fopen('php://stderr', 'w'));
}

  That should be it.

  References:

  • Receiving MANY “Use of undefined constant STDERR” type errors running core-cron: http://drupal.org/node/1064690
  • 1and1 Hosting
  • Drush works on 1and1. How to get past “Your command line PHP installation is too old. Drush requires at least PHP 5.2.0