Error running 'composer install' on cpanel server using PuTTY

Question

I have connected my cPanel access using PuTTY to install Composer to be able to run my Symfony application. On running composer install command on the server, I am getting this message as a throwback

composer could not find a composer.json file in /home/mydomain to initialize a project please create a composer.json file

I am kind of confused as I don't know where to create the composer.json on my server.

Please can someone assist am a newbie to this.

Answer 1

Move to your project's root directory (Where the structure is App/, src/, Web/, composer.json).

Execute composer install from there.

If you're project is empty ATM just create a composer.json file where you want your project to be and put in it the content of the composer.json of your working local project