[FIXED] PHP Composer Installation on OS Catalina

Issue

Just tried to install composer on my new Macbook Pro. Ran into an issue when I tried to install it globally. I'm not sure if this operating system related or not.

My Steps

1. sudo php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"
2. sudo php -r "if (hash_file('sha384', 'composer-setup.php') === 'a5c698ffe4b8e849a443b120cd5ba38043260d5c4023dbf93e1558871f1f07f58274fc6f4c93bcfd858c6bd0775cd8d1') { echo 'Installer verified'; } else { echo 'Installer corrupt'; unlink('composer-setup.php'); } echo PHP_EOL;"
3. sudo php composer-setup.php
4. sudo php -r "unlink('composer-setup.php');"
5. sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Problem

I can run composer if I access it directly. php composer.phar works just fine. But I can't get it to work globally by moving it to the /usr/local/bin/composer directory.

Question

Is this operating system related? And if you could shed anymore light onto the issue that would be great.

Solution

The answer is no, it is not operating system related.

In this case, I made the mistake of moving composer.phar into a folder named composer. So the structure was this: /usr/local/bin/composer/composer.phar. The correct approach is to rename composer.phar to composer, making the structure /usr/local/bin/composer.

Answered By - Jacob