[FIXED] How do I install Composer on a shared hosting?

Issue

I have these things:

• the file http://api.odtu.lu/composer.phar
• http://api.odtu.lu/phpinfo.php
• ftp access
• cPanel
• Cron jobs on FreeBSD
• PHP, Perl, CGI-BIN, Python, Curl.

How can I install Composer? (My aim is to install Restler)

Edit: I do not have SSH access.

Solution

It depends on the host, but you probably simply can't (you can't on my shared host on Rackspace Cloud Sites - I asked them).

What you can do is set up an environment on your dev machine that roughly matches your shared host, and do all of your management through the command line locally. Then when everything is set (you've pulled in all the dependencies, updated, managed with git, etc.) you can "push" that to your shared host over (s)FTP.

Answered By - Kevin Newman