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Posted by Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points

Installing Composer

I need to get Laravel installed on my Linux server. I'm not familiar with installing applications to Linux and need some input on the Composer installation. I'm assuming installing it globally with be preferable so I downloaded it to my /usr/local/bin directory. What do I need to do now so that I can use the composer command?

As detailed in the Laravel documentation, I tried to install Laravel by creating a project with composer:

composer create-project laravel/laravel --prefer-dist

But I get an error that composer is not a command. Any advice or guidance on Composer and the Laravel installation would be appreciated.

2 Answers

Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points

Fixed it. Since I ran composer as root the Laravel project directory had improper permissions.

Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points
Aaron Walton
Aaron Walton
3,557 Points

I figured out that Composer needed to be in a "composer" directory within bin to work. I now have my Laravel project created but now get a 500 internal server error when trying to access the projects public index file. Is there something additional I need to do for config? Is there a way to test that Laravel's requirements are being met by the server?