Trouble with composer on Namecheap shared hosting

rjain

Hello,
I am trying to install flarum on a shared hosting server through namecheap. These are the commands I followed to install composer onto the server.

Connect via SSH and cd into directory the app should be installed into.
"cp /usr/lib/php.ini php.ini"
Add the following two lines to the copied php.ini file:
detect_unicode = Off
suhosin.executor.include.whitelist = phar
Download and install composer by executing "curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -c php.ini" command

I am stuck after this, I tried running multiple commands but none of them worked, Is there any way to make this work?
Thanks!

datitisev

rjain If you have problems installing it on your server, I would recommend instead to install it locally, so download Flarum and set it up by following the Flarum Installation Documentation.
After you've installed it locally you could just upload all those files to your server.

jordanjay29

rjain

Check if you have curl on your system (if not, sudo apt-get install php5-curl on debian-based distros). Otherwise, please post the errors you receive here so we can help diagnose.
What commands did you try and which errors did you get as a response?

ron_jeremy

rjain You can also ask Namecheap tech support to install it for you.

rjain

Sorry for the late reply,
Following @datitisev 's reccomendation, I went ahead and installed flarum locally then proceeded to upload it via ftp. In the future, I will try to follow these recommendations to install it directly on the server.

Thanks!

datitisev

rjain So this solved your problem, right?
Glad to hear it!

To Moderators: Please add "Solved" tag ?

rjain

datitisev Yes. It did. Thanks again!

jordanjay29

datitisev Use the Flag function if you want to notify us. Thanks.