Installing Composer on Bluehost VPS

Question

I am somewhat new to all this so maybe this is a simple question. I am trying to install Composer and have read through all the documentation to the best of my understanding.

I have installed composer through bluehost's system console. Received the message that: "Composer (version 1.6.3) successfully installed to : /root/composer.phar Use it: php composer.phar"

Now when I type "php composer.phar require aws/aws-sdk-php" into the console I get the following message: "could not open input file: composer.phar"

I am follow the direction from: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/aws-sdk-php/v3/guide/getting-started/installation.html

Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated!

Answer 1

Calling it using php composer.phar works only if you call it from the folder where you've placed the phar. You should either add an alias such that you can call it like composer from everywhere (without typing php before) or call it using php /root/composer.phar