How to run Composer with Plesk PHP

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Applicable to:

• Plesk for Linux
• Plesk for Windows

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%Additional\PleskPHPXX\php.exe" "%plesk_dir%Additional\Composer\composer.phar" [options] [arguments]



Additional Information

• To add Composer to chrooted environment, visit this KB article.
• Managing PHP Project Dependencies with Composer | Plesk Obsidian documentation
• Official Composer Documentation