Accessing Composer on a Shared Hosting Platform

Installing Composer on a shared hosting environment presents unique challenges, but it is possible with the right approach. Let's explore a proven method to obtain Composer on your shared hosting, providing you with essential accessibility.

To commence, locate the downloaded composer.phar file on your system. Once found, proceed with the following steps:

1. Using a terminal or command prompt, navigate to the home directory (usually '~') and create two subdirectories: 'bin' and 'bin/composer'.
2. Employ cURL to download Composer's installer:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

3. Relocate the freshly downloaded 'composer.phar' file to 'bin/composer':

mv composer.phar bin/composer

4. Identify the path to your PHP command-line executable (php-cli) using the 'which' command:

which php-cli

5. Modify your '.bashrc' file to include the following lines at the beginning and end:

• Beginning:

[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

• End:

alias composer="/usr/bin/php-cli ~/bin/composer/composer.phar"

(Ensure you replace '/usr/bin/php-cli' with the path obtained in step 4.)

6. Execute these final commands to initialize Composer and verify its installation:

source ~/.bashrc
composer --version

Following these steps should successfully install Composer in your shared hosting environment. You can now leverage Composer to manage dependencies for projects like Restler.