Installing Composer in cPanel

Starting with cPanel version 130 cPanel no longer ships PHP Composer by default. Heres how to install Composer manually should your project need it.

Installation

The following steps requires you to be in your cPanel accounts shell.

To do this, you can either use cPanels in built Terminal or SSH into your hosting.

Once you are in the Terminal, run the following commands to install composer:

cd ~ mkdir bin mkdir bin/composer curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php mv composer.phar bin/composer echo 'alias composer="/usr/local/bin/php ~/bin/composer/composer.phar"' >> ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc composer --version

This will create the folders ‘bin/composer’, downloads and runs the installer, moves composer into ‘bin/composer’ directory and finally, adds an alias for composer so you can execute it as a command anywhere.

For more information about composer and using it, you can refer to their official site below:

• Get Composer

This guide is an advanced tutorial so if you require assistance with any of the steps above, feel free to contact our Technical Support team and we will be happy to help!