I ran sudo nano .bashrc and added
export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
I restarted my terminal, ran laravel and received
laravel: command not found
I had run this prior to the above
composer global require laravel/installer
Also tried executing what I added to .bashrc in the terminal directly.
echo $PATH prints
/home/dev/.composer/vendor/bin:~/.composer/vendor/bin:~/.composer/vendor/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin
The directory that Composer uses to store global binaries can be configured, and its default value depends on your operating system. You can see what it's set to by running
composer global config bin-dir --absolute
On your machine that outputs
/home/dev/.config/composer/vendor/bin
so that's what you should add to your PATH:
export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"
See also:
Why is COMPOSER_HOME empty?, which touches on one reason why you might see ~/.composer/ on some machines and ~/.config/composer/ on others.
I have installed Composer locally only for one Laravel project
~/phpstorm/myproject/composer.phar
and didn't have any problem till I tried to create a new Laravel project, then I got an error:
Could not open input file: composer.phar
I tried to add the .phar file directly to the PATH, but it doesn't seem to change anything.
PATH=~/phpstorm/myproject/composer.phar:$PATH
Does somebody know how I could manage this problem without installing Composer globally? In the Internet I only found this easiest kind of solution, but it doesn't suit me, alas.
Thanks for your proposals in advance!
Change the name from composer.phar to composer by this command:
mv composer.phar composer, give it execution permissions by running the following: chmod 0755 composer or chmod a+x composer, and put the current path to the PATH env variable in your .bashrc or .zshrc file, restart your terminal and it should work, or you can always install it globally. Bests! ;)
You don't need to add composer to your path unless you want to use it globally. You can just do
php composer.phar
Another, easy option would be to create an alias for it in your shell
eg for bash:
alias composer='php ~/phpstorm/myproject/composer.phar'
Yesterday I've just installed Laravel with Behat on my VM Ubuntu 15.10.
Everything works fine, running the command $ vendor/bin/behat --init successfully created the features/ folder
but today something is weird, when running the $ vendor/bin/behat its saying vendor/bin/behat: line 1: ../behat/behat/bin/behat: No such file or directory
What's inside the vendor/bin/behat file?
This first single line ../behat/behat/bin/behat
accessing the actual location works $ vendor/behat/behat/bin/behat which basically means the file DOES exists
Please note that the issue is the same for the files in vendor/bin like doctrine phpspec etc..
You're having relative path problems. If your current directory contains vendor/ and you execute vendor/bin/behat, then ../behat/behat/bin/behat doesn't exist because it's going one directory up from your current directory, not vendor/bin/. For example:
$ cd $HOME/project
$ vendor/bin/behat
vendor/bin/behat: line 1: ../behat/behat/bin/behat: No such file or directory
That relative path becomes $HOME/project/behat/behat/bin/behat and not $HOME/project/vendor/behat/behat/bin/behat (note vendor present in the second path)
You need to be inside vendor/bin/ when executing behat:
$ cd $HOME/project/vendor/bin
$ behat
...
However, I don't see this being an issue with the latest behat install, line #1 is a well formed shebang. I think you might want to destroy your vendor install, update composer, etc, and reinstall Behat. Those files should not start with relative paths.
EDIT:
According to the composer docs, it creates symlinks to package binaries, as seen in the source code. You can verify this by running ls -l vendor/bin (all symlinks will have a -> pointing to their destination path). It would seem your original php composer.phar require ... was corrupt from the beginning.
I m new to php and rabbitmq in debian(Linux). I have installed xampp, rabbitmq and also installed composer.phar in project directory using below command
/opt/lampp/htdocs/rabbitmq_demo# curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | /opt/lampp/bin/php
Now I use Composer to install the dependencies of the project using below command
composer.phar install
but it thrown an error as below
bash: php: command not found
I have preferred the link https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
I want to prepare autoload.php
Please help me to create autoload under vendor directory.
You do not have a php cli program installed on your computer or it is not in your current $PATH variable. Please install PHP first or correct your $PATH environment variable.
Once you have this, run the composer.phar install again. This will download all dependencies listed in your composer.json file. Once the program completes, you will have a file ``vendor/autoload.php`. You can just require this file at the beginning of your own script and everything will be taken care of.
You need to add the path to the PHP command line (CLI) in the XAMPP install, to your bash environment. (You'd think the installer would do this!)
The XAMPP PHP CLI on Debian is at /opt/lampp/bin/php
So you need to add /opt/lampp/bin to your $PATH environment variable.
See this answer for the various options in modifying your path depending on who you want to be able to run PHP.
/etc/login.defs
/etc/environment
/etc/profile
~/.bashrc
In one of those files, you append to the path thus:
PATH=$PATH:/opt/lampp/bin
and re-login.
I've read the global installation documentation for Composer, but it's for *nix systems only:
curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
I would be such happy doing the same on Windows, that's the OS of my development machine. I would be able to run
composer update
From an arbitrary folder where composer.json exists. Interpreter php.exe is already in PATH variable.
Any clue?
Sure. Just put composer.phar somewhere like C:\php\composer.phar, then make a batch file somewhere within the PATH called composer.bat which does the following:
#ECHO OFF
php "%~dp0composer.phar" %*
The "%*" repeats all of the arguments passed to the shell script.
Then you can run around doing composer update all ya want!
Install Composer
On Windows, you can use the Composer Windows Installer.
Go to php.exe located folder.
C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12\
open cmd there, and execute below command.
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
composer.phar will be downloaded in same folder.
Create folder named composer in C:// drive (or anywhere you wish, for upcoming steps, remember the path).
move composer.phar file to C://composer folder.
Create composer.bat file in same folder with contents below
#ECHO OFF
php "%~dp0composer.phar" %*
create file named composer without any extensions.
running command type NUL > composer in CMD will help to get it done quickly,
Open that file and place below contents inside it.
#!/bin/sh
dir=$(d=$(dirname "$0"); cd "$d" && pwd)
# see if we are running in cygwin by checking for cygpath program
if command -v 'cygpath' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
# cygwin paths start with /cygdrive/ which will break windows PHP,
# so we need to translate the dir path to windows format. However
# we could be using cygwin PHP which does not require this, so we
# test if the path to PHP starts with /cygdrive/ rather than /usr/bin.
if [[ $(which php) == /cygdrive/* ]]; then
dir=$(cygpath -m $dir);
fi
fi
dir=$(echo $dir | sed 's/ /\ /g')
php "${dir}/composer.phar" $*
Save.
Now set path, So we can access composer from cmd.
Show Desktop.
Right Click My Computer shortcut in the desktop.
Click Properties.
You should see a section of control Panel - Control Panel\System and
Security\System.
Click Advanced System Settings on the Left menu.
Click Environment Variables towards the bottom of the window.
Select PATH in the user variables list.
Append your PHP Path (C:\composer) to your PATH variable, separated
from the already existing string by a semi colon.
Click OK
Restart your machine.
Or, restart explorer only using below command in CMD.
taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
exit
Original Article with screenshots here : http://aslamise.blogspot.com/2015/07/installing-composer-manually-in-windows-7-using-cmd.html
This may be useful to someone:
On Windows 7, if you've installed Composer using curl, it can be found in similar path:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Composer
Well, now this question is a bit obsolete as there is now an official installer which "will install the latest Composer version and set up your PATH so that you can just call composer from any directory in your command line."
You can get it at : http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows
A bit more generic if you put the batch in the same folder as composer.phar:
#ECHO OFF
SET SUBDIR=%~dp0
php %SUBDIR%/composer.phar %*
I'd write it as a comment, but code isn't avail there
Start > Computer : Properties > Change Settings > Advanced > Environment Variables > PATH : Edit [add this string (without "") at the end of line ";C:\<path to php folder>\php5.5.3"].. open cmd and type composer
thats it :-)
I use Composer-Setup.exe and it works fine.
Just in case you need to know where is the composer.phar (to use with PhpStorm) :
C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\composer.phar
Unfortunately, all the good answers here didn't work for me. So after installing composer on windows 10, I just had to set system variable in environment variables and it worked.
sorry to dig this up, I just want to share my idea, the easy way for me is to rename composer.phar to composer.bat and put it into my PATH.
An alternative variant (see Lusitanian answer) is to register .phar files as executable on your system, exemplary phar.reg file:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.phar]
#="phar_auto_file"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phar_auto_file\shell\open\command]
#="\"c:\\PROGRA~1\\php\\php.exe\" \"%1\" %*"
Just replace the path to php.exe to your PHP executable. You can then also extend the %PATHEXT% commandline variable with .PHAR which will allow you to type composer instead of composer.phar as long as composer.phar is inside the %Path%.
I was having the same issue and when I checked the environment in Windows 7 it was pointing to c:\users\myname\appdata\composer\version\bin which didn't exists.
the file was actually located in
C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin
Fixed the location in environment setting and it worked
you can install it using this command line
echo #php "%~dp0composer.phar" %* > composer.bat
I found that on Control Panel > Environment Variables > Variables for my localuser just inside PATH varible like this:
C:\Users\MY_USER_NAME\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin