How to run Composer with Plesk PHP

Dmitry Bystrov

10 months ago

Question

How to run Composer with Plesk PHP?

Answer

Run Composer from Plesk interface

In Plesk Obsidian, Composer is available as a Plesk extension. To learn more about PHP Composer Plesk extension, visit:

PHP Composer extension - Plesk

Run Composer from a command-line interface

To use composer with Plesk PHP (e.g. to install additional libraries), connect to a Plesk server via SSH (Linux) / RDP (Windows Server) and use the following commands, where X.X is a PHP version:

Warning: Be careful when installing untrusted packages as root/super user. See https://getcomposer.org/root for details.

on CentOS/RHEL-based distributions:

# /opt/plesk/php/X.X/bin/php /usr/lib64/plesk-9.0/composer.phar [options] [arguments]
on Debian/Ubuntu-based distributions:

# /opt/plesk/php/X.X/bin/php /usr/lib/plesk-9.0/composer.phar [options] [arguments]
on Windows Server:

C:> "%plesk_dir%AdditionalPleskPHPXXphp.exe" "%plesk_dir%AdditionalComposercomposer.phar" [options] [arguments]

Additional Information

To add Composer to chrooted environment, visit this KB article.

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