laravel new sh: composer: command not found

Question

The problem happens whenever I call the Laravel installer: laravel new app.

I get sh: composer: command not found

When I call composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel app everything works fine.

I'm using zsh and my export paths looks as follows:

export PATH=$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH

export PATH=/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH

export ZSH="/Users/konstantinkrumov/.oh-my-zsh"

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

I also have an alias for composer

alias composer="php /usr/local/bin/composer/composer.phar

When I run which composer I get: composer:

aliased to php /usr/local/bin/composer/composer.phar

So far I have tried to:

1. Move composer.phar into /usr/local/bin/
2. Reinstalled composer
3. Changed the alias path to php /usr/local/bin/composer/composer
4. Tried making a symlink as suggested in this stackoverflow question

non of the above seem to work

Answer 1

The best solution which I was able to find was to make a function in the ~/.zshrc file.

Function looks like this:

ln() {
    composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel $1;
}

This way I can run ln app and generate a new laravel app with a shorter syntax.

I was unable to figure out why running laravel new app gave the following output: sh: composer: command not found and failed to generate a new app.

Answer 2

If you are on macOS , You can do:

cd /usr/local/bin
mv composer.phar composer
sudo chmod +x composer