Question:
When we try to run a composer command, like update, we usually do the following:
composer update
Cpanel has multiple PHP binaries, but in this case, we are unable to select a specific PHP binary to use, instead we have to run it with the default one, how to run composer update with a different php binary in cpanel?
Solution
composer binary file, is a phar file. PHAR is necessarily a PHP Archive and usually automatically detect the running php. But as it is essentially written in php, you may explicitly run it with a different php binary, if you want. To run composer with different php binary, first, you need to find the location of composer. You may do so, using the following:
root@mirage [~]# which composer /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer
Cpanel different php binaries are available under the following kind of directory:
/opt/cpanel/ea-phpXX/usr/bin/php
XX is the version number of PHP. So for example if you need to use PHP 7.4, you would need to run using the following:
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/usr/bin/php
Now, to run composer update along with PHP 7.4 binary, you may do something like the following:
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/usr/bin/php /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer update
First, make sure you are in the directory where you want to install laravel, for example, something like the following:
cd /home/username/public_html
Then, you may run the above command:
/opt/cpanel/ea-php74/usr/bin/php /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer update or in case, you want to to install /opt/cpanel/ea-php74/usr/bin/php /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer install or may be, you wan to run update with no-scripts /opt/cpanel/ea-php74/usr/bin/php /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer update --no-scripts