While SSH’d into my Centos server recently, I kept getting strange errors when trying to run PHP Artisan and Composer commands. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me what I had changed to cause the issue all of a sudden.
Of course it ended up being one of those things so simple it was over looked. This site happened to be on a WHM/cPanel environment. It also runs different versions on PHP based on the cPanel account.
When logging in as root I then switched users to my account:
su accountName
Then I ran:
composer update
It kept erroring with:
Warning: Composer should be invoked via the CLI version of PHP, not the cgi-fcgi SAPI
I then realized what the problem was. When switching users I forgot the “-” dash, but didn’t think it made a difference. Come to find out “su accountName” is different from “su – accountName”.
When using the dash in there it will read-in user-specific environmental variables, without the dash will not.
Simple solution.
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