Could not open input file: composer.phar error in Symfony 2. SOLVED.

Posted on April 19, 2016by alex-arriaga

This is a common issue that is related to bad installation of our favorite PHP package manager: Composer. Let’s fix it:

Open your terminal and run following comand in order to get the latest version of Composer:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

I recommend you to move the composer.phar file to a global “bin” directory, in my case (macOS) the path is:

mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer.phar

Create an alias for easy access:

alias composer='/usr/local/bin/composer.phar'

If everything is ok, now it is time to verify our Composer version:

composer --version

That’s it! Start making great Symfony 2 projects 🙂

Ann-Sophie De Ganck says:

May 28, 2019 at 4:21 am

I followed all these steps on my mac, but when I run composer –version, I still get the error:
/usr/local/bin/composer.phar: No such file or directory

Any idea what might be the problem?

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1. alex-arriaga says:
  
  May 28, 2019 at 9:00 am
  
  Hi Ann, did you create the alias to composer?
  
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