Run bower from root user, it's possible? How?

Question

I have a local development server where I test a lot of things, now I\'m playing with bower to manage the libraries\' dependencies in my Symfony2 project. After getting Node

Answer 1

below answer is for symfony framework's bundle, but if you come here from google using phrase "bower root" you have two options to solve that:

1. add --allow-root to command
2. set global bower config that will allow running bower as root

Option 1: you can run bower as root by typing:

bower install --allow-root

root is allowed by setting --allow-root command parameter

Option 2: is using global setting that allows root, by creating file: /root/.bowerrc which have inside following configuration:

{ "allow_root": true }

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how to do this in SpBowerBundle symfony bundle:
probably you haven't set sp_bower.allow_root to true in SpBowerBundle config

in bundle config, by default you have set something like this:

allow_root: false # optional

but you should have:

allow_root: true

so in app/config/config.yml add this bundle config

sp_bower:
    allow_root: false # optional

bundle config reference (all settings): https://github.com/Spea/SpBowerBundle/blob/master/Resources/doc/configuration_reference.md