Installing composer manually: GoDaddy and other shared hosting

Installing Laravel on Shared Hosting: 

 

We are now in Home ~ directory,

$ cd ~/bin 
 $ mkdir composer 
 $ cd composer 
 [~/bin/composer]$

Run these command set to install Composer in ~/bin/composer directory Composer: Command-line installation (Link).

To quickly install Composer in the current directory:

To check the setup file composer.phar:

[~/bin/composer]$ ls 
 [~/bin/composer]$ php composer.phar -v

Aliasing:

You need to make an alias for easy:

[~]$ vi ~/.bashrc 

Add this line in the top of the file.

[ -z "$PS1" ] && return 

Add this line in the very bottom of the file.

alias composer="/usr/bin/php5-cli ~/bin/composer/composer.phar" 

source ~/.bashrc 
composer -V 
Composer version 1.8.4 2019-02-11 10:52:10

Install Laravel

Run to install Laravel installer itself:

composer global require laravel/installer

To create a project:

laravel new blog

NB: It not working then you need to alias the laravel executable on your .bashrc

go2belal@toptenofebay.com [~/.composer]# ll vendor/laravel/installer/bin
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 go2belal go2belal 4096 May 21 10:25 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 go2belal go2belal 4096 Jun 23 13:40 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 go2belal go2belal  331 May 21 10:25 laravel*
go2belal@toptenofebay.com [~/.composer]# cd vendor/laravel/installer/bin
go2belal@toptenofebay.com [~/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/bin]# pwd
/home4/go2belal/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/bin

vi ~/.bashrc
alias laravel='/home4/go2belal/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/bin/laravel'
source ~/.bashrc
laravel -v

Debug: some times you may see this message:

source ~/.bashrc 
composer -V 
-jailshell: /usr/bin/php5-cli: No such file or directory 

Then run:

$ which php
/usr/local/bin/php

and replace the "/usr/bin/php5-cli" with "/usr/local/bin/php"

in ~/.bashrc file.

Run again: 

source ~/.bashrc

composer -V

Composer version 1.8.4 2019-02-11 10:52:10