First off: I'm very familiar with Composer and also Symfony and some other MVC frameworks.
I tried the following installation documentation, but I'm stuck on how to properly install a laravel project as "apache:apache" under "/var/www/html" on a CentOS 6 virtual machine.
I ran the composer global require "laravel/installer" command, and it says to put "~/.composer/vendor/bin" in your PATH. So I presume this command (laravel install) is done as a normal user (not root), and the folder will exist in your home directory when run.
I added to my path by editing my /etc/profile to include this. But when I try to run laravel new laraveltest in the /var/www/html folder (owned by apache), I get:
[abunk@Alvin-CentOS6 html]$ laravel new laraveltest
Crafting application...
PHP Warning: file_put_contents(/var/www/html/laravel_572e877d514bacbb7381860b8307a067.zip): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /tmp/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/src/NewCommand.php on line 122
PHP Warning: ZipArchive::extractTo(): Permission denied in /tmp/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/src/NewCommand.php on line 140
PHP Warning: ZipArchive::close(): Invalid or uninitialized Zip object in /tmp/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/src/NewCommand.php on line 142
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
Application ready! Build something amazing.
So then I copied the folder /home/abunk/.composer to /tmp/.composer; and then I ran su -s /bin/sh apache -c "laravel new laraveltest" from the /var/www/html folder (this should run as apache).
But instead I get this:
[abunk@Alvin-CentOS6 html]$ su -s /bin/sh apache -c "laravel new laraveltest"
Password:
Crafting application...
PHP Warning: proc_open(/dev/tty): failed to open stream: No such device or address in /tmp/.composer/vendor/symfony/process/Process.php on line 290
[Symfony\Component\Process\Exception\RuntimeException]
Unable to launch a new process.
new [--dev] [--] []
So my question is (or maybe this is really a bug): How do install as the apache user? Any recommendations?
I could do this as root user, but I think it's a bad idea to run Composer as root user.
