Few questions about composer

adasiek

Hi, I'm not php developer, so my questions may be a little naive, but I assure you, I searched for it.

Starting with latest beta (3, because 4 is minor bugfix) my server have to have composer installed.
To install Composer on my server i need ssh access with root.
There is a way to install it locally and copy on server, but in that case I won't be able to install extensions (or will I, but only the same way?)
Most of hosting providers (excluding vps) does not provide composer nor root access via ssh.

Are all of these statements true? Maybe there is a way to install without root? Maybe I can install things locally and copy them to my hosting? Are there any tutorials for dummies? Hosting helpdesk said that I can install software locally and then get it on my server via wget. Will this do the trick?

I would appreciate any piece of information that will get me closer to installing and maintaining latest flarum version on my hosting.

Franz

Howdy, let me respond to your questions one by one:

Yes, you need Composer to set up Flarum and install extensions. You could theoretically run Composer locally before uploading the files, but that will not help you when installing extensions.
Since you can download a local copy of Composer (see point 3), you don't need root access.
Yes, you can download a composer.phar file that you can then use (with php composer.phar) instead of the global composer command.
I have no idea. For shared hosts, this is probably true, but even some of those offer SSH access.

adasiek

Ok, Thanks. I will try with composer.phar trick.

globeweber

This topic may help your needs... It will need SSH Access.
https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1342-cpanel-flarum-beta3-ssh-install-steps