I can dispense with the ownCloud for the moment. My main concern in the inability to make it through the Symfony2 configuration and setup screens. I cleaned out installs of everything and started over a couple times. I'm doing it again for the purposes of this community support post.

After installing Symfony2 into a folder I have named "showcase" I can't access the config.php file because it has code that requires localhost access only.I go here /showcase/web/config.php and I get this message...

"This script is only accessible from localhost."

This is not an issue because I just add my IP address to the config.php file to have access. Once I do that I can see the page and it has recommendations for correct setup. Here they are...

MAJOR PROBLEMS
1. Set detect_unicode to off in php.ini.
- even when set in the php.ini file the problem does not get resolved till I have added this to my top level .htaccess file
"suPHP_ConfigPath /home/<myAccountName>/public_html"

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Install PHP 5.4.11 or newer if your project uses the logout handler from the Symfony Security Component.
- even though I switch the version of PHP from cPanel to 5.4.* or 5.5.* it still shows up as 5.3.* when I use a PHP info file. Not a super huge deal but it would be nice if I could actually be using at least 5.4.

2. Install and enable a PHP accelerator like APC (highly recommended).
- not really worried about that now. As far as I know it is not vital.

3. Set short_open_tag to off in php.ini.
- I have done this.


Ok, so after doing all that as well as checking the php.ini file for the presence of

extension=pdo.so
extension=pdo_mysql.so
extension=pdo_sqlite.so
extension=sqlite.so

detect_unicode = off // As recommended
short_open_tag = off // As recommended

I go back to the /showcase/web/config.php page and I still have this...

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. Install PHP 5.4.11 or newer if your project uses the logout handler from the Symfony Security Component.
- would be nice to actually have 5.4.11 but still does not seem to actually switch using cPanel PHP control

2. Install and enable a PHP accelerator like APC (highly recommended).
- Speed is not a big concern at the moment.

3. Install PDO (mandatory for Doctrine).
- Now this is new! This is the problem. I assume without PDO being detected or a misconfiguration in Symfony2 it can't get to the php class files it neeeds to proceed to the actual control panels and setup pages for Symfony2.

Then this occurs on this page which is linked at the bottom /showcase/web/app_dev.php (I edited this one as well to add my current IP so I could access it)

"FatalErrorException: Error: Class 'PDO' not found in"
"/home/<myaccountname>/public_html/showcase/vendor/doctrine/dbal/lib/Doctrine/DBAL/DriverManager.php line 148"

So I check that line and it has variables for parameters and I assume path info.

148: return new $wrapperClass($params, $driver, $config, $eventManager);

This is where I am at. Been looking around for help on this issue, boards and what not.