Upgrade Composer on DirectAdmin

In this tutorial, AZDIGI will help you upgrade Composer DirectAdmin most simply and easily.

I. What is Composer?

Composer is a dependency manager for the PHP language. It is a simple and reliable tool that many developers use to manage and integrate external packages or libraries into PHP projects. As a result, they don’t have to build a webpage or web application from scratch.

Normally, if you are a DirectAdmin server administrator, most of the dev team will ask you to install Composer when they use the Laravel source code.

II. Upgrade Composer on DirectAdmin

Before upgrading Composer DirectAdmin, you must determine that your DirectAdmin server has installed Composer.

To check if your server has Composer installed, run the following command:

composer -V
    

If your results are as shown below, it means that your server doesn’t have Composer installed.

If you have not installed it before, you can refer to the following article:

• Install Composer on the DirectAdmin server.

To upgrade Composer on DirectAdmin, we follow these 2 steps.

Step 1: SSH into your DirectAdmin system

To upgrade Composer on DirectAdmin, we first need to SSH or access your VPS/server with root privileges. If you don’t know how to SSH into your VPS/Server, you can refer to the following tutorial:

• How to login to Linux VPS with SSH protocol.

After successfully SSH, we continue with step 2 to check the version installed on the server and the newer version that you can upgrade.

Step 2: Check the current Composer version and available upgrade

To check the current Composer version and available upgrade, we execute the following two commands:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build versions | grep composer
    

Here is my result.

As you can see, the version installed on the server is Composer: Composer: 2.0.9 and the newer version you can upgrade is Composer: 2.0.11.

If you want to see the changes between Composer versions, you can check it out at the following link:

• Composer changelog.

Now we come to step 2 to perform Composer upgrade commands on DirectAdmin.

Step 2: Commands to upgrade Composer DirectAdmin

These upgrade commands are relatively simple, you just need to run the following three commands:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build update_script
./build composer
    

Explanation of the above commands:

• Command 1: Move to the custombuild folder.
• Command 2: Update custombuild script.
• Command 3: Upgrade Composer to the latest version.

Below is the image when I run the above commands:

Now we can recheck the Composer version with the command:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/custombuild
./build versions | grep composer
    

So the Composer version has been upgraded to 2.0.11.

III. Summary

So with just two steps and a few simple commands, you have upgrade Composer on DirectAdmin successfully.

Upgrading software/programs in the process of using DirectAdmin in particular and other systems, in general, will bring many benefits. Improving security is probably the biggest benefit for the system.

Hope this article will be of help to you. Wishing you success!

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• Summary of instructions for using DirectAdmin.

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