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Ala Varos
Ala Varos

Reputation: 1725

Composer could not find a composer.json file in /var/www/html

I'm trying to set up an environment in my Virtual Machine which is an Ubuntu 15.10. I've followed a tutorial with these steps:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv ~/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
composer global require "laravel/installer"

Then I do:

sudo nano ~/.profile

And I add this to end of file:

PATH="$PATH:~/.composer/vendor/bin"

Finally:

composer global update

After these steps, I try:

laravel new project

And get this error:

PHP Warning:  file_put_contents(/var/www/html/laravel_62a1f2f16d54929f3367e5f18f937a47.zip): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/alavaros/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/src/NewCommand.php on line 114
PHP Warning:  ZipArchive::extractTo(): Permission denied in /home/alavaros/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/src/NewCommand.php on line 132
PHP Warning:  ZipArchive::close(): Invalid or uninitialized Zip object in /home/alavaros/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/src/NewCommand.php on line 134
Composer could not find a composer.json file in /var/www/html
To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the https://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section

Upvotes: 2

Views: 26947

Answers (1)

ordonezalex
ordonezalex

Reputation: 2744

It looks like you have a permission issue.

What is the output of ls -l /var/www? You should see that you have write permission (w) for public or that you are in the group listed.

For example, you might see

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 Jul  4  2015 .

Which means you would have issues writing to /var/www without acting as root.

Simply running sudo laravel new project might fix your current problem, but may incur you having to use sudo whenever you want to work.

A better solution would be to give yourself access to this directory:

sudo chmod o+w /var/www/

Running this command will give all (other) users (including you) on this machine write access to /var/www

Upvotes: 2

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