Install Composer Globally

[gigaboy]

Using Ubuntu 22.04. Wanting to use OLS with PHP 8.2 & Maria 10.11. One of my apps requires the use of composer. However, all I can find is installing it by pre-installing php-cli, which then creates a separate instance of php outside of OLS. This leads to confusion and broken packages, a real mess. I would up have to wipe the server and staring over.

Is there a way to install composer without using PHP-cli, so that my instance of PHP is authoritative within OLS and can be called by all apps? If so, how?

 

[Cold-Egg]

Not sure if I get your point, but if you install it under the document root folder, then your app should be able to run it, right?
Get composer with the script, see https://getcomposer.org/doc/faqs/how-to-install-composer-programmatically.md, and it seems no cli is required.

 

[gigaboy]

Now I have another clean install, running lsphp8.2. Attempted local installation of composer from the link you provided, doesn't work:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/composer/getcomposer.org/76a7060ccb93902cd7576b67264ad91c8a2700e2/web/installer -O - -q | php -- --quiet

Command 'php' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install php8.1-cli  # version 8.1.2-1ubuntu2.14, or
sudo apt install php-cli     # version 2:8.1+92ubuntu1

So I'm stuck.

 

[Cold-Egg]

It means PHP is not found, you might need to install it first.
To install lsphp, please follow https://docs.litespeedtech.com/lsws/extapp/php/getting_started/, or https://docs.openlitespeed.org/installation/script to install OLS, PHP, MariaDB at one time.