How to run composer from anywhere?

Question

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, whe

Answer 1

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).

Answer 2

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 "Move" 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!

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

Just move it to /usr/local/bin folder and remove the extension

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer