How to change PHP CLI version from 5.4 to highter

[bulent]

Hi,
I am trying to install a laravel app and when I run

composer install --no-interaction --no-dev --prefer-dist

it says that system do not meet requirements, required version of php is 5.6, but you have 5.4

php -v returns php 5.4

How to change default PHP CLI version to 5.6 or 7

I have tried to run

/opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/php /path/to/my/app/composer install --no-interaction --no-dev --prefer-dist

but it says coud not open composer...

 

[IgorG]

Try to install composer with

# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | /opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

and then use /usr/local/bin/composer

 

[bulent]

Try to install composer with

# curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | /opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin
# ln -s /usr/local/bin/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

and then use /usr/local/bin/composer

First one returned "installed successfully"
Second one return nothing.

When I run

/usr/local/bin/composer install --no-interaction --no-dev --prefer-dist

in app folder, it returns again php version is 5.4 ...

 

[IgorG]

Looks like that you need to modify path to php in your composer.json

 

[bulent]

Looks like that you need to modify path to php in your composer.json

I have the code below in composer.json

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.6.4",
        "laravel/framework": "5.3.*",
        "mews/purifier": "~2.0",
        "vinkla/hashids": "^2.4",
        "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
        "intervention/image": "^2.3",
        "santigarcor/laratrust": "3.0.*",
        "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.2",
        "chencha/share": "^5.2",
        "larapack/config-writer": "1.*",
        "cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable": "^4.1",
        "grabzit/grabzit":"3.0.0"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
        "barryvdh/laravel-debugbar": "^2.2",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~5.0",
        "symfony/css-selector": "3.1.*",
        "symfony/dom-crawler": "3.1.*"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "database"
        ],
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/"
        }
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "classmap": [
            "tests/TestCase.php"
        ]
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-root-package-install": [
            "php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "php artisan key:generate"
        ],
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postInstall",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist"
    }
}

And modified PHP starting ones to /opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin/php but it did not help either
Is there safe way to update the default php cli version

 

[bulent]

this article helped me

http://blogs.reliablepenguin.com/2015/08/18/using-php-composer-phar-with-non-default-php-install

I have run
export PATH=/opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin:$PATH
and after that it was ok

 

[IgorG]

this article helped me

http://blogs.reliablepenguin.com/2015/08/18/using-php-composer-phar-with-non-default-php-install

I have run
export PATH=/opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin:$PATH
and after that it was ok

Good. But I see there:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /2015/08/18/using-php-composer-phar-with-non-default-php-install on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

[bulent]

Good. But I see there:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /2015/08/18/using-php-composer-phar-with-non-default-php-install on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Hi @IgorG
As I understand, you cant open the article. Right?

That below is the copy of the article:

Using PHP composer.phar With Non-default PHP Install

By admin on August 18, 2015 in PHP

Composer for PHP is an increasingly popular tool for managing packages within a PHP application. Here’s a link for more information:

https://getcomposer.org/

On many of our Plesk servers we have multiple PHP versions install. The default at /usr/bin/php is provided by the Linux distribution and then there are additional version installed at /opt/plesk/php. Plesk lets us easily select the PHP version for each hosted website. But you can run into problems with composer using the wrong PHP version. A typical composer command might be:

php composer.phar install

or

php composer.phar update

To make our alternate PHP version work we need to instead do something like this:

export PATH=/opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin:$PATH; php composer.phar update

So we override the default PHP by adding our preferred version to the front of the path.

But from all that I run

export PATH=/opt/plesk/php/5.6/bin:$PATH

and after that I did not have problems with composer

 

[HansMobron]

Hello,
I marked this treat as unsolved as this solutions mention not worked for me, running Plesk 17.

I also set export and alias in: .bash_profile ans .bashrc
php -v
PHP 5.6.30 (cli) (built: Jan 20 2017 12:09:30)
Copyright (c) 1997-2016 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2016 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader (enabled) + Intrusion Protection from ioncube24.com (unconfigured) v6.0.7, Copyright (c) 2002-2016, by ionCube Ltd.
with Zend OPcache v7.0.6-dev, Copyright (c) 1999-2016, by Zend Technologies

But running composer from de Plesk GUI say's - phpunit/phpunit 5.3.x-dev requires php ^5.6 || ^7.0 -> your PHP version (5.4.16) does not satisfy that requirement.

 

[bulent]

But running composer from de Plesk GUI say's - phpunit/phpunit 5.3.x-dev requires php ^5.6 || ^7.0 -> your PHP version (5.4.16) does not satisfy that requirement.

Hi
what means running composer from plesk gui?

 

[HansMobron]

Hi
what means running composer from plesk gui?

Sorry for that, from the web interface.

 

[bulent]

Sorry for that, from the web interface.

which web interface, I didn't knew that there is web interface for composer.