I'm trying to install Prestissimo to an Ubuntu 16.04 server, but that leads to an error:
$ composer global require "hirak/prestissimo:^0.3"
Changed current directory to /home/kramer65/.composer
[ErrorException]
file_put_contents(./composer.json): failed to open stream: Permission denied
require [--dev] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--no-progress] [--no-update] [--no-scripts] [--update-no-dev] [--update-with-dependencies] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--prefer-stable] [--prefer-lowest] [--sort-packages] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--] [<packages>]...
I'm logged in as user kramer65
, so I wouldn't know why it can't write to my home folder. My normal reaction to a permission denied
is to use sudo
, but composer then always says:
Do not run Composer as root/super user! See https://getcomposer.org/root for details
Any idea how I can solve this?
composer.json
?
~/.composer/composer.json
file yet.
~/.composer/
folder? kramer65
has no right to write it seems, a chmod
could be useful.
~/.composer/
is owned by root
. But I just checked on some other systems and installed composer on a fresh new Ubuntu 16.04 VM, and it is always owned by root
. I can of course chmod
or chown
it , but is it a good idea to change this default behaviour?
I had this problem to install laravel/lumen.
It can be resolved with the following command:
$ sudo chown -R $USER ~/.composer/
To resolve this, you should open up a terminal window and type this command:
sudo chown -R user ~/.composer
(with user
being your current user, in your case, kramer65
)
After you have ran this command, you should have permission to run your composer global require command.
You may also need to remove the .composer file from the current directory, to do this open up a terminal window and type this command:
sudo rm -rf .composer
For me, in Ubuntu 18.04. I needed to chown inside ~/.config/composer/
E.g.
sudo chown -R $USER ~/.config/composer
Then global commands work.
In my case I don't have issues with ~/.composer
.
So being inside Laravel app root folder, I did sudo chown -R $USER composer.lock
and it was helpful.
In my case, .composer
was owned by root, so I did sudo rm -fr .composer
and then my global require worked.
Be warned! You don't wanna use that command if you are not sure what you are doing.
I faced this issue as well but in my case, I was in wrong directory. Check the directory you are working
In my case all the permissions were correct at all the locations manetioned in other answers here, but I was still getting this error.
Turned out there were some vendor directories that were owned by root. Composer writes composer.lock
files all over the place when it's doing an update or install.
So solving my case - and this is specifically for a laravel sail container - all ownerships were switched to user sail
in the project:
Enter the sail
container as root:
vendor/bin/sail root-shell
Set the file ownership for all files in the project:
chown -R sail:sail /var/www/html
You may just want to do the vendor directory only as a first try:
chown -R sail:sail /var/www/html/vendor
The ownership was wrong after switching from a hand-rolled docker-compose.yaml
setup to Laravel Sail, which IMO handles file ownership and permissions in a sensible way, separating root
from the application user sail
.
This might be super edge case, but if you are using Travis CI and taking advantage of caching, you might want to clear all cache and retry.
Fixed my issue when I was going from sudo to non sudo builds.
I was getting the same exception, but in my case I am using PowerShell to run commands So, I fixed this with an instruction to unblock multiple files first. PS C:\> dir C:\executable_file_Path\*PowerShell* | Unblock-File
and then use the following to load the package & 'C:\path_to_executable\php.exe' "c:\path_to_composer_.phar_file\composer.phar "require desired/package
In my case I used sudo mkdir projectFolder
to create folder. It was owned by root user and I was logged in using non root user.
So I changed the folder permission using command sudo chown mynonrootuser:mynonrootuser projectFolder
and then it worked fine.
I was getting the same error when using it with WSL Windows 10. I used the following command to solve it:-
sudo chown -R $USER /home/<username>/.config/composer
I had same issue in windows version of composer that has installed in
C:\composer
When I was trying this command
C:\composer require aws/aws-sdk-php
then simply I got into composer installed folder and try it again
C:\composer>composer require aws/aws-sdk-php
the package installed quickly .
Success story sharing
~/.composer