{"id":578,"date":"2023-12-20T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2023\/12\/20\/8727597-how-to-install-composer-locally-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T06:48:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T06:48:04","slug":"8727597-how-to-install-composer-locally-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/8727597-how-to-install-composer-locally-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Composer Locally at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both PHP Composer<\/a><\/b> version 1 and 2 are pre-installed in all of our Web<\/a> <\/b>and Cloud<\/a><\/b> hosting plans at the server level. If you upload a project from your local or remote repository and want to run the command composer update<\/code> <\/b>or composer self-update<\/code><\/b>, you will need to install Composer locally, that is, on your hosting. You can easily do so by following the steps below 👇 <\/p>

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While Composer 1<\/b> is discontinued, you can see how each version is used here<\/a> 💡 <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>

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1. Connect to your hosting plan via SSH<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>

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2. In your command console, be sure to go to the root folder<\/b> where you are going to deploy your project. In most cases, this folder follows the path:<\/p>

domains\/u123456789\/domain.tld\/public_html\/<\/code><\/pre>
To check the path of your current location, run this command: <\/p>
pwd<\/code><\/pre>
For more information, refer to this guide: Common SSH Commands<\/a><\/b>​<\/p>
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3. Once you are in your project folder, go here: Download Composer<\/a><\/b> and find this section:<\/p>
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Run each command one by one to install Composer locally. Remember to run each command one by one and press enter each time. It should look something like this:<\/p>
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4. Run composer update <\/b>for the local composer file<\/b> that you have previously downloaded, that is, the composer.phar<\/b> file
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Make sure you are located in the folder where composer.phar <\/b>and composer.json<\/b> are stored (you can see the listing with the ls<\/code> command), and run any of the following commands:<\/p>
​​php .\/composer.phar update<\/code><\/pre>
or<\/p>
​php .\/composer.phar self-update​<\/code><\/pre>
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This will start the package updating process. After a few moments, if everything is correct, you will receive a result similar to this:<\/p>
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And that’s it! By following the above steps, you can install Composer locally and execute the installation of your project packages successfully!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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