Just started working with composer and having some issues installing apps globally. I am using this on a linux machine running ElementaryOS. When I run composer global require "laravel/installer" it gives me an error that it cannot find ./composer.json file in the current directory. First why would I need something that I am installing globally?
So if I need one, could I just create in my home directory a .composer.json and when I do a global install can I just point to that file?
So I figured it out. Instead of putting the .composer.json in the home directory, I just put it in the .composer directory. Then I just named the file composer.json as it will not pollute my home dir anymore
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I hosted my website on french host Gandi, with their simple hosting plan.
I cannot move anything in the /usr/local/bin directory since it is read-only, so I used to manage with composer.phar, which works well.
I recently used a library which requires the composer executable to be present (This library executes something like "composer require xxx" and there is no fallback to composer.phar).
Is there a way to make it work ?
What I have done so far :
Tried to install composer globally (Failed because of the read-only filesystem)
Tried to install composer globally for the current user (Failed because there was no ~/.local/bin directory, and also failed after creating the directory and restarting the instance)
Tried to move the file to any directory of the $PATH variable (Failed because all of these directories are read-only)
Tried to rename composer.phar to composer, and allowed it to be executable chmod +x composer (Failed because it only works with the command ./composer and not with composer)
Ok, I finally succeeded with the following steps:
renamed composer.phar to composer mv composer.phar composer
made this new file executable chmod +x composer
added the current path (corresponding to my website's root) to the system's $PATH variable export PATH=$PATH:$PWD
I'm not fully satisfied with this since this relies on a specific website's root folder, but hey, it works! I'll try to update this answer if I find a way to create a folder available for every website I'll host there.
I've set up my Homestead and i am able to connect via vagrant ssh.
I also add Laravel installer over Composer via composer global require laravel/installer.
But know, i don't know how to make it work cause in the vagrant user folder, there is no .composer/vendor folder. i figured out that the composer has installed the vendor folder under /root/.composer but when i try to access, i don't have permission cause it's in root folder.
My goal is to use the Laravel installer. For that, i need to add the path to the $PATH. Here the guideline from the docu:
Make sure to place the $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin directory (or the equivalent directory for your OS) in your $PATH so the laravel executable can be located by your system
But i can't do that in vagrant or at least i don't know how.
And yes, i know that composer is installed, that part worked.
So how can i make it work?
I fixed it.
For all others with the same issue: i need to run as administrator and i also had an outdated vagrantbox
I am new to Laravel and Composer, and am following some guides including LaraCasts.com . One of the things that need to be done is use Composer to require packages to use in the Laravel project. However, this doesn't work for me.
I installed Laravel using the composer create-project method (http://laravel.com/docs/5.0), and so far everything was fine. However, any package I "require" now actually goes into the C:\Users\user\vendor folder, and the composer.json file is in C:\Users\user.
I understand that Composer is supposed to separate between projects as opposed to being global like PEAR. So how do I specify that I'm working on a specific project and require everything into that project? Also, what is the actual path where I'm supposed to put packages in Laravel, in case I want to do it manually?
I am using Windows 7 and Xampp.
When you run composer require {pacakage}, make sure you use the cd command (Change Directory - I think) into the project you want to install the package for. So if you're in Xampp it could be something like cd C:\xampp\htdocs\my-laravel-project\ or whatever the path to your project is, then run your composer require {pacakage}.
I believe it's installing it in C:\Users\user\vendor as when you open your terminal/command prompt the default location is C:\Users\{username}\.
Please make sure you ran the composer create-project in your web root, for Xampp I think it's C:\xampp\htdocs\ but it could be different depending on how you set up Xampp when you installed it.
I have successfully installed Composer in the root directory (that was the default choice) on my Linux/Apache server using their installation guide. It's all been very simple so far, except for one php.ini tweak I've had to make (detect_unicode = Off) but now I'm stuck.
I'm trying to install Ratchet using Composer, with the use of this guide:
http://socketo.me/docs/install
It says I need to "create a file called composer.json in your project folder". So I created that file (with the contents they gave on their page) using the cPanel file manager, in my application's root directory. However, when I run Composer using:
php composer.phar install
PuTTy gives the following error message:
Composer could not find a composer.json file in /root
To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the http://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section
But this doesn't seem to make sense, why would I place the JSON file in the server's root if the documentation says to place it in the project folder? What am I missing?
I just found on other topic that you can use :
php composer.phar --working-dir=/home/user/folder/ update
It looks like you're executing php composer.phar install in /root path.
First,I use wamp on my Window7.I open php-openssl,and I git pull the laravel from github.com,and then I put laravel on my d:/wamp/www/, I change the c:/windows/system32.But when I open the url
http://localhost/laravel/public
I see this question.
I am a newbie on laravel,and without install on Ubuntu.Where is my wrong, without no pear,or something else? Thank you!
You need to run composer install in a command prompt.
If you do not have composer, download the phar file from their website.
Place the file you just downloaded into the laravel directory.
Then, make sure that the absolute path to php.exe is added to your PATH environment variable.
Then, you can hold down shift, and right click anywhere inside the laravel directory, and open up a command prompt window. Then, run php composer.phar install. The process may take some time, depending on the speed of your internet connection.
Instead of using the above method, you can download the Composer installer for Windows, install it, and just run composer install.
Note that you only need to do this in order to put the Laravel components together. You do not need to run it on a live server.
Please consult the Laravel Docs for installation and other instructions: http://laravel.com/docs
Try This :
Installing Laravel 4 on WAMP
1. Enable OpenSSL
OpenSSL must be enabled in the PHP configuration.
Edit php.ini in your WAMP’s PHP folder, e.g.:
C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.12\
Note: This is not the php.ini in C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.4.4\bin.
Find the following line and remove the semicolon save it:
;extension=php_openssl.dll changed to extension=php_openssl.dll
2. Install Composer
(i).Download the Composer Windows installer from getcomposer.org.
(ii). Run the installer.
(iii). When it asks for the location of php.exe, point it to the executable in your WAMP’s PHP folder, e.g.:
C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.12\
(iv). Finish the installation.
(v). Open a command-line interface (cmd) and type:
composer
It should return a list of options. If you get an error, restart your computer and try again.
Composer has now been installed and added to your PATH environment variable. This means you can run it from any directory using the command-line interface.
Now we need to install Composer. This is a dependency manager that will download the latest release of Laravel and specific versions of Laravel’s dependencies, such as Doctrine and Symfony.
3.Install Laravel
Now that Composer has been installed, Composer can download and install Laravel onto your system.
(i). Open a command-line interface (cmd).
(ii). Go to the directory in which you want to install Laravel. This is usually your development directory. In this tutorial, we’ll use C:\wamp\www\laravel
(iii). Instruct Composer to install Laravel into a project directory. we use project name myproject.
composer create-project laravel/laravel myproject --prefer-dist
Note: This will install Laravel in a subdirectory myproject of the current working directory.
Three type of installation to be completed
Now your project was running directory like
C:\wamp\www\laravel\myproject\public\
After completed put tick mark and increase the point....
Do php composer.phar dump-autoload or php artisan dump-autoload