How to run composer from anywhere

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I have just installed composer in my  usr bin folder  so when from that folder I run php composer phar I get the help info about composer  But  when I try to run the same from other folder I get Could not open input file  composer phar    How to call php composer phar from every where without problems

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Simply run this command for installing composer globally   curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   sudo php -- --install-dir  usr local bin --filename composer

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How to run Composer From Anywhere  on MacOS X  via Terminal Background  Actually in getComposer website it clearly states that  install the Composer by using the following curl command  curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer  php  And it certainly does what it s intended to do  And then it says to move the composer phar to the directory  usr local bin composer and then composer will be available Globally  by using the following command line in terminal  mv composer phar  usr local bin composer  Question  So the problem which leads me to Google over it is when I executed the above line in Mac OS X Terminal  it said that  Permission denied  Like as follows  mv  rename composer phar to  usr local bin composer  Permission denied  Answer  Following link led me to the solution like a charm and I m thankful to that  The thing I just missed was sudo command before the above stated  quot Move quot  command line  Now my Move command is as follows  sudo mv composer phar  usr local bin composer Password   It directly prompts you to authenticate yourself and see if you are authorized  So if you enter a valid password  then the Moving will be done  and you can just check if composer is globally installed  by using the following line  composer about  I hope this answer helped you to broaden your view and finally resolve your problem  Cheers

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composer phar can be ran on its own  no need to prefix it with php  This should solve your problem  being in the difference of bash s  PATH and php s include path

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For running it from other location you can use the composer program that come with the program  It is basically a bash script  If you don t have it you can create one by simply copying the following code into a text file     bin sh  dir   d   dirname   0    cd   d   amp  amp  pwd   if command -v  cygpath   gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 1  then   dir   cygpath -m  dir   fi  dir   echo  dir   sed  s      g   php    dir  composer phar       Then save the file inside your bin folder and name it composer without any file extension  Then add the bin folder to your environment variable f

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You can do a global installation  archived guide    Since Composer works with the current working directory it is possible to install it in a system-wide way   Change into a directory in your path like cd  usr local bin Get Composer curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php Make the phar executable chmod a x composer phar Change into a project directory cd  path to my project Use Composer as you normally would composer phar install Optionally you can rename the composer phar to composer to make it easier   Update  Sometimes you can t or don t want to download at  usr local bin  some have experienced user permissions issues or restricted access   in this case  you can try this  Open terminal curl -sS http   getcomposer org installer   php -- --filename composer chmod a x composer sudo mv composer  usr local bin composer  Update 2  For Windows 10 and PHP 7 I recommend this tutorial  archived   Personally  I installed Visual C   Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 x64 before PHP 7 3 VC15 x64 Non Thread Safe version  check which versions of both in the PHP for Windows page  side menu   Read carefully and maybe the enable-extensions section could differ  extension curl instead of extension php curl dll   Works like a charm  good luck

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Just move it to  usr local bin folder and remove the extension  sudo mv composer phar  usr local bin composer

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For MAC and LINUX use the following procedure   Add the directory where composer phar is located to you PATH   export PATH  PATH  yourdirectory   and then rename composer phar to composer   mv composer phar composer

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You can do a simple global install to run it from anywhere  curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php mv composer phar  usr local bin composer   The https   getcomposer org doc 00-intro md globally website recommends this way   Worked well on Ubuntu 14 04 no problem  This way you don t need to do as an example php compomser phar show   you just do composer show   in any directory you are working with

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Some of this may be due to the OS your server is running  I recently did a migration to a new hosting environment running Ubuntu  Adding this alias alias composer   path to your composer  to  bashrc or  bash aliases didn t work at first because of two reasons   The server was running csh  not bash  by default  To check if this is an issue in your case  run echo  0  If the what is returned is -csh you will want to change it to bash  since some processes run by Composer will fail using csh tcsh   To change it  first check if bash is available on your server by running cat  etc shells  If  in the list returned  you see bin bash  you can change the default to bash by running chsh -s  bin csh   Now  at this point  you should be able to run Composer  but normally  on Ubuntu  you will have to load the script at every session by sourcing your Bash scripts by running source    bashrc or source    bash profile  This is because  in most cases  Ubuntu won t load your Bash script  since it loads  profile as the default script   To load your Bash scripts when you open a session  try adding this to your  profile  this is if your Bash script is  bashrc   modify accordingly if  bash profile or other    if   -n   BASH VERSION     then       include  bashrc if it exists     if   -f   HOME  bashrc     then             HOME  bashrc      fi fi   To test  close your session and reload  If it s working properly  running composer -v or which composer should behave as expected

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First install the composer like mentioned in the composer installation documentation  I just added here for reference   curl -sS https   getcomposer org installer   php  and then move the file to   usr local bin    sudo mv composer phar  usr local bin composer  Try to run composer -V  If you get a output like Composer version followed by the version number then the composer is installed successfully   If you get any output like composer  command not found means use the following command to create a alias for the composer  So it will be executed globally    alias composer   usr local bin composer   Now if you run composer -V means you will get the output as Composer Version followed by the version number   Hope this will help someone

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