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I have successfully installed Vagrant along with some boxes on my Windows PC. I got to say it works awesome, creating and destroying VM's with different configurations on the fly.

The only problem I'm facing now is that I want to install composer. But composer requires you to point to the php.exe to do so. I don't want to install PHP on my computer, otherwhise there is no point using Vagrant, right. How do I tackle this problem?

I've seen some articles about using Puppet, but I couldn't make much sense out of them.

Thanks in advance.

Wouter J
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You just need to install PHP (and curl) in your vagrant box. For instance, execute vagrant ssh to get SSH access to your box and execute the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get install -y php5-cli curl
$ curl -Ss https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Now you're ready to use the composer command in your vagrant box.

You can improve this by making this part of provisioning, the step where a box is set up when running vagrant up. To do this, put the above commands in a shell file (for instance project/vagrant/provision.sh):

sudo apt-get install -y php5-cli curl > /dev/null
curl -Ss https://getcomposer.org/installer | php > /dev/null
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/bin/composer

Now, configure this shell file as a provision step in your VagrantFile:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|

  config.vm.box = "ubuntu/trusty64"

  # configure the shell file as a provision step:
  config.vm.provision :shell, path: "vagrant/provision.sh"

end

Now, when running vagrant init, the shell file is executed and php & composer are installed.

You can also choose to use a box with php and composer pre-installed, like laravel/homestead.

Wouter J
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  • Thanks I got it now. I'm using the homestead box, works perfect. – JasonK Jul 04 '15 at 15:08
  • Thanks. So when we run composer commands in our vagrant box it will reflect the changes on files on my host windows machine as well ? Also how about git? Do we neet to install git on windows host or in the vagrant box ? Thanks again – Raheel Nov 23 '15 at 17:15
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There is also a vagrant box with composer pre-installed. Here is the Github for this box: https://github.com/Swader/homestead_improved. With Git Bash for windows, navigate to the folder where /homestead_improved was installed.

Run vagrant up;, vagrant ssh to get inside the VM machine.

Once inside the virtual machine cd inside the /Code dir. You can now use composer, for example composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1" to install the Laravel installer.

Irfan Kissa
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  • that's the point my vagrant doesnt have compser pre-installed. what's the use if it doenst have it. why has laravel point us to wrong homestead if this is what they should provide?? PS i havent installed this one yet – Saugat Thapa Apr 05 '17 at 07:09
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Commands to be followed when you are in vagrant homestead in order to update the composer:

  1. vagrant ssh
  2. cd code (where my laravel projects are)
  3. composer selfUpdate --2 [which means composer selfUpdate --versionnumber]
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