I have been trying to install composer on my Mac (running macOS Sierra). The composer.phar file is now located in /usr/local/bin/composer/ and it works properly when I'm not running composer as a root.
$ composer -V
Composer version 1.2.4 2016-12-06 22:00:51
However, when I try to run composer as a root (which of course is required to install dependencies), I get this:
$ sudo composer
sudo: composer: command not found
I have no single clue how to fix it, has anyone else had this?
it must be a composer.phar renamed to composer into /usr/local/bin/ , not a directory composer/
From : https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
Globally#
You can place the Composer PHAR anywhere you wish. If you put it in a directory that is part of your PATH, you can access it globally. On unixy systems you can even make it executable and invoke it without directly using the php interpreter.
After running the installer following the Download page instructions you can run this to move composer.phar to a directory that is in your path:
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Note: If the above fails due to permissions, you may need to run it again with sudo.
Note: On some versions of OSX the /usr directory does not exist by default. If you receive the error "/usr/local/bin/composer: No such file or directory" then you must create the directory manually before proceeding:
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
Note: For information on changing your PATH, please read the Wikipedia article and/or use Google.
Now just run composer in order to run Composer instead of php composer.phar.
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 am new to symfony2 and reading symblog. In third chapter while trying with data-fixtures I tried the command:
php composer.phar update
but I got the error:
Could not open input file: composer.phar
So I googled a little and tried
php composer.phar install
but still getting the same error. So please guide how to deal with this composer to install new extentions or bundles like data-fixtures in symfony2 using wamp.
If you followed instructions like these:
https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
Which tell you to do the following:
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
Then it's likely that you, like me, ran those commands and didn't read the next part of the page telling you to stop referring to composer.phar by its full name and abbreviate it as an executable (that you just renamed with the mv command). So this:
$ php composer.phar update friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle
Becomes this:
$ composer update friendsofsymfony/elastica-bundle
I had the same problem on Windows and used a different solution. I used the Composer_Setup.exe installation file supplied by the composer website and it does a global install.
After installing, make sure your PATH variable points to the directory where composer.phar is stored. This is usually C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin (ProgramData might be a hidden directory). It goes without saying, but also be sure that the PHP executable is also in your PATH variable.
You can then simply call
composer install
instead of
php composer.phar install
Background
It is helpful to know that there are two ways to install (and use) Composer: locally as a file in your project directory, or globally as a system-wide executable.
Installing Composer locally simply means that you are downloading a file (composer.phar - which is a PHP Archive) into your project directory. You will have to download it for every project that requires Composer.
Like a regular PHP file that you want to execute on the command line, you will have to run it with PHP:
php composer.phar update
Which basically tells the php executable to run the file composer.phar with update as argument.
However, if you install it globally, you can make composer itself executable, so you can call it without php (and don't have to download it for every project). In other words, you can use composer like this:
composer update
Since you are executing php composer.phar update, and you are getting the error Could not open input file: composer.phar, you probably don't have composer.phar in your current directory.
Solution
If you have Composer installed globally, simply run composer update instead of php composer.phar update.
If you don't have Composer installed yet, download the PHAR using the following command:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
This will download the installer and run it using php. The installer will download the actual Composer PHAR to your current working directory, and make it executable.
To install Composer globally (I recommend this), copy the file to a location in your PATH. The exact location differs per operating system and setup, see https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally for more information.
Personally, I prefer to install Composer in my home directory so I don't need sudo to install or update the composer executable (which can be a security risk). As I'm on Linux, I use the following command:
mv composer.phar ~/.local/bin/composer
If anyone else came this low on the page and still didn't find a working answer (like I did), use this:
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
$ alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer.phar'
$ composer --version
et voila! A working composer :-)
To solve this issue the first thing you need to do is to get the last version of composer :
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
I recommend you to move the composer.phar file to a global “bin” directoy, in my case (OS X) the path is:
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
than you need to create an alias file for an easy access
alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer.phar'
If everything is ok, now it is time to verify our Composer version:
composer --version
Let's make composer great again.
I found this worked as I did not have curl installed. On Windows 8 with XAMPP installed. It will add it to your local build I use .gitignore to avoid the repo
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
I got it from here: https://getcomposer.org/download/
This worked for me:
composer install
Without
php composer install
Run the following in command line:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Yesterday I was trying to install Yii2 framework on Windows 10 and I have same problem(Could not open input file: composer.phar) running this command:
php composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Issue is composer.phr file is not in current directory,you need to give full path composer.phr like
php C:\ProgramData\Composer\bin\composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Or you can create yii2 project using this command:
composer create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
Or
composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced advanced 2.0.9
I had the same issue. It is solved when I made composer globally available. Now I am able to tun the commands from any where in the folder.
composer update
composer require "samplelibraryyouwant"
Use this :
php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php
Hi friends, follow the steps to fix this issue in MAC OS
Step 1: first run the command in Terminal with your project directory
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
Step 2: Move the composer.phar in your project directory
$ mv composer.phar /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/bashrushAPI/composer.phar
Step 3: Setup alias the composer
$ alias composer='/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/bashrushAPI/composer.phar'
Step 4: Check the composer version now
$ composer --version
Composer version 1.7.2 2018-08-16 16:57:12
Step 5: Confirm the project folders and file placed on bellow
$ ls
CONTRIBUTING.md docker-compose.yml templates
README.md logs tests
composer.json phpunit.xml vendor
composer.lock public
composer.phar src
Step 6: Now update composer
$ composer.phar update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files
Step 7: Run your sample project
$ php composer.phar start
php -S localhost:8080 -t public
[Thu Sep 27 03:16:11 2018] ::1:51177 [200]: /
[Thu Sep 27 03:16:11 2018] ::1:51178 [404]: /favicon.ico - No such file or directory
Easy answer, navigate to the directory where you already have the composer.json file that you want to run (ideally your project folder) then download composer into the same folder, then instantly run the install command like so:
php composer.phar install
This will automatically find the composer.json and run your required scripts. Good luck. This stuff is a breeze for terminal wizards and totally bizarre to the rest of us
I am using windows 8.0. In my case to install or update i just use composer install or something else instead of php composer.phar. This worked for me
like
composer require google/apiclient:1.*
To googlers who installed composer via HomeBrew:
make a symbolic link for /usr/local/bin/composer
ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
I got this error "Could not open input file: composer.phar" while installing Yii2 using below mentioned command.
php composer.phar create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
Solutions which worked for me was, I changed the command to
composer create-project yiisoft/yii2-app-basic basic
I hope it help!
your composer.phar should be placed in above way.
For windows, I made composer.cmd and used the below text:
php c:\programs\php\composer.phar %*
where composer.phar is installed and c:\programs\php\ is added to my path.
Not sure why this isn't done automatically.
For Windows10 Pro, Following steps fix the issue. select properties check the Unblock program option. run the installer, run the command CMD with Admin rights. At command promp run composer --version to make sure it is globally installed. you should be able to now run composer require drush/drush This is for drush dependency using composer.
Command like this :
composer.phar require intervention/image
error: composer.phar: command not found
I solved the problem by following this process
i set the composer globally and renamed composer.phar to composer then run this command composer require intervention/image . and now it's working fine
Just open cmd as Administrator and go into your project folder and check it is working or not using composer command.
The above error is because of the composer is not accessible globally.
So you need to run "cmd" as Administrator.
This is working fine for me.
If you are using Ubuntu/Linux and you are trying to run
php composer.phar require intervention/image on your command line.
Use sudo composer require intervention/image instead. This will give you want you are looking for.
I had an issue getting a package.json's script to run composer dumpautoload.
I had the file /usr/local/bin/composer.phar, and also the file ~/.bash_profile (on OSX) contained:
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer.phar"
This allowed composer to work from the command line, but it didn't allow scripts to execute composer.
The fix was this:
$ cd /usr/local/bin
$ mv composer.phar composer
$ sudo chmod +x composer // +x allows the file to be executable, such as by CLI scripts
But that yielded this error Could not open input file: /usr/local/bin/composer.phar
The fix was to update ~/.bash_profile (sudo nano ~/.bash_profile), and change the composer alias to:
alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer"
# ie: `.phar` extension removed
Now everything is behaving as expected.
Your composer.phar must be in Source files. I had same problem and I just cut my composer.phar into mine framework-standard-edition folder, where is my whole strong textproject.
if the composer is already install all you need is to know where the composer.phar file is (its directory) after that you move to your symfony project where you have the composer.json and from that directory you execute your composer.phar file. In windows here is what you have to do.
symfony project directory_where_composer.json_is>php the_directory_where_composer.phar_is/composer update
That's all
use two steps .
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo php composer.phar update
You can do
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
The -sS flag meaning don't show progress, do show errors
and then
php composer.phar install
from:
How do I get cURL to not show the progress bar?
https://packagist.org/
I've reach to this problem when trying to install composer on a Window 7 machine from http://getcomposer.org/download page. As there was an existing compose version (provided by acquia Dev Desktop tool) the installation fails and the only chance was to fix this issue manually. (or to remove Dev Desktop tool composer).
Anyway the error message is quite straightforward (Could not open input file: composer.phar), we should then tell the system where the file is located.
Edit composer.bat file and should look like:
#SET PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\php5_4;%PATH%
php.exe composer.phar %*
See that composer.phar doesn´t have a file path. When standing in a different folder than the one where composer.phar is located the system won´t be able to find it. So, just complete the composer.phar file path:
#SET PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\DevDesktop\php5_4;;%PATH%
SET composerScript=composer.phar
php.exe "%~dp0%composerScript%" %*
Reopen your window console and that should do the trick.
EDIT: this has an issue because it always uses %~dp0%composerScript%
folder as composer execution. Then all configurations are done in that
folder (besides standing on your current project folder) and not in your project folder.
So far I haven't found a was to make a manual composer installation to
work globally on Windows. Perhaps you should go ahead with composer for windows installation mentioned above.
Do not access the composer by
composer composer.pher install
use
composer install
You can just try this command if you're already installed the Composer :
composer update
or if you want add some bundle to your composer try this :
composer require "/../"
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
I need to install PEAR on a server which does not have outsite access to the net. There is no go-pear.bat in the php folder and even if it had go-pear.bat i think it needs access to the net.
I looked an the Installing PEAR from a local copy from the PEAR website. But it needs PEAR to be already installed for it to work.
So do any of you guys know how to install PEAR without access to internet?
You don't need PEAR installed on the webhost, just on your local machine.
The two main approches are
Track your dependencies manually, and copy all the appropriate files to the server yourself
With pear installed on your local machine, do pear install -R/my/root_dir -a PEAR. This will install the PEAR package and all dependencies to the specified root directory. Copy this installation to your webhost.
I think it's possible to use pear to manage an installation via FTP also. I never tried.
You should also have a look at "pear help" and "pear help install".
There is a way to do this if you are on Windows and have the PHP installer.
You can select, during the PHP installation time, the PEAR option under extension menu when selecting the components for PHP installation in order to install PEAR package.
If you already have PHP installed, you just have to click on the installer to choose "modify", and choose the correct option.
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_SDci0Pf3tzU/SgBXLClDWEI/AAAAAAAAEuI/TgnBA_SEHFs/s400/pear%20install.jpg
I wrote an article on this very subject:
http://christian.roy.name/blog/install-pear-without-network-no-internet-accessoffline
It will allow you to use the pear command as well.
Create temporary folder that I will get ride of later.
mkdir pear-temp
cd pear-temp
Upload all the PEAR packages to that temp folder (using SFTP, FTP, Whatever).
If you use a USB key, then you copy them all like this:
cp /mnt/usb/*.tgz ./
Extract the core packages in a separate folder.
mkdir lib
tar x -C lib -zf PEAR-*.tgz
tar x -C lib -zf Console_Getopt-*.tgz
tar x -C lib -zf Archive_Tar-*.tgz
tar x -C lib -zf Structures_Graph-*.tgz
This bash function is to be able to set the include_path joined by colons.
function join() {
local IFS=$1
shift
echo "$*"
}
pear requires output buffering and needs to load all the core packages from the lib folder.
PHPOPT="-d output_buffering=1 -d include_path=.:$(join ':' lib/*)"
First we setup our configuration file.
php $PHPOPT lib/PEAR-*/scripts/pearcmd.php config-create $HOME/ $HOME/.pearrc
Now we install ALL our packages. Make sure you have all the required dependencies as well.
php $PHPOPT lib/PEAR-*/scripts/pearcmd.php install -o -O *.tgz
Cleanup
cd ..
rm -Rf pear-temp
Put pear in your path:
PATH="$PATH:$HOME/pear"
Edit your .profile or .bashrc if you want this to be permanent.
Edit your php.ini too or add it using set_include_path() function, whichever :)
Drink to sucess!