Install Composer on DirectAdmin with 3 simple steps

In today’s article, AZDIGI will help you install Composer on DirectAdmin with just a few simple steps that are extremely effective and can be used immediately.

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.

Usually, if you are a DirectAdmin server administrator, most of the dev team will ask you to install Composer.

II. Install Composer on DirectAdmin

By default, Composer is not pre-installed on DirectAdmin, but we must install it ourselves. To install Composer on DirectAdmin, we follow these 3 steps.

Step 1: SSH into your DirectAdmin system

To install 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 if any version of Composer is installed on your server.

Step 2: Check Composer installation

To check if Composer is installed on your server, execute the following command:

composer -V
    

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

We continue to the next step to perform Composer installation commands on DirectAdmin.

Step 3: Commands to install Composer on DirectAdmin

Installing Composer on DirectAdmin is relatively easy, perhaps because DirectAdmin is a paid control panel, the development team has simplified the configuration and use, you can perform the following 3 commands to install Composer successfully.

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

Explanation of the above commands:

• Command 1: Move to the custombuild folder.
• Command 2: Update custombuild script.
• Command 3: Install composer.

Below is an image of my installation:

Now you can check with the command in step 2 again to see the result of the composer version you just installed.

composer -V
    

And here are my results:

III. Summary

As you can see, with just 3 simple steps, we have successfully installed Composer on DirectAdmin without encountering any difficulties.

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

See more useful articles about DirectAdmin at the following link:

• Summary of instructions for using DirectAdmin.

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