Let us take learn how to setup the directadmin composer with the support of our DirectAdmin support services at Bobcares.

Why setup Directadmin composer?

Composer is a PHP dependency management tool. Many developers use it to manage and integrate external packages or libraries into PHP projects since it is straightforward and dependable.

As a result, we don’t need them to create a webpage or web application from start. Most of the time, if we are a DirectAdmin server administrator, the dev team will request that we install Composer.

We have to set up the composer as it is not set up by default.

How to install Composer on DirectAdmin?

First and foremost, we will want root access to install this plugin. Here is a set of commands to do so:

cd /usr/local/directadmin/plugins;
wget https://github.com/Marco129/DirectAdmin-Composer/archive/master.zip;
unzip master.zip;
mv DirectAdmin-Composer-master directadmin-composer;
rm -f master.zip;
sh directadmin-composer/scripts/install.sh;

Most likely, we will receive the following indicating the composer setup with DirectAdmin:

[root@server plugins]# sh directadmin-composer/scripts/install.sh

mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/directadmin/plugins/directadmin-compo ser/data': File exists

This will set up the plugin.

Error management: composer is not installed

We may just disregard this error message as composer is not installed.

cp /usr/local/directadmin/plugins/directadmin-composer/data/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

We may now run composer as any user from the command line. Let’s install the asset plugin (not as root, of course; we need first log in as a regular user):

composer require fxp/composer-asset-plugin

We will get somethign as shown below:

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Conclusion

To sum up we have now seen how to set up the DirectAdmin composer with the support of our tech team.