How to Install Composer for a Directadmin Server

Here is a quick guide for composer setup on a DirectAdmin server (if you want to make it available for all users).

We will use Directadmin Composer plugin – you can get one here

First of all, we will need root access to install this plugin. Here is the list of commands for that:

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 probably, you will get this:

[root@server plugins]# sh directadmin-composer/scripts/install.sh
mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/directadmin/plugins/directadmin-compo ser/data': File exists
Plugin is now installed!


You can just ignore this error message – composer is not installed.

In order to make it available to everyone by simply typing composer from the command line, you need to copy it into /usr/local/bin folder.

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

You’re done! Now you can run composer via command line as any user.

Let’s install asset plugin (of course, not as root, you should log in as a regular user first):

composer require fxp/composer-asset-plugin

You should get something like this:

[yii2@server public_html]$ composer require fxp/composer-asset-plugin
Using version ^1.4 for fxp/composer-asset-plugin
./composer.json has been created
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Package operations: 1 install, 0 updates, 0 removals
- Installing fxp/composer-asset-plugin (v1.4.4): Downloading (100%)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files