Hi, I have tried to install drush via Composer on a LAMP 16.04, but I keep getting this error (and a couple more), when I try ‘drush status’:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught ReflectionException: Class DOMDocument does not exist in /home/USER/.composer/vendor/consolidation/output-formatters/src/Transformations/DomToArraySimplifier.php:24
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OK, I’ve figured it out:
In order to get the installation of Composer, and subsequently Drush, to work, zip and unzip extensions needs to be installed:
$ apt-get update $ apt-get install zip unzip
Then it’s pretty plain sailing installing Composer. Make sure you have installed proper version of Curl first:
$ apt-get install curl php7-cli git
Then: $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | sudo php – --install-dir=/usr/local/bin --filename=composer
And Drush:
$ composer global require drush/drush
Then use Composer to create your project. If you run into permission issues, then:
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Add “www” group and add your user to this group: $ sudo groupadd www $ sudo usermod -a -G www [user]
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logout/login
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Set ownership and write permissions: $ sudo chown -R root:www /var/www $ sudo chmod 2775 /var/www $ find /var/www -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} + $ find /var/www -type f -exec sudo chmod 0664 {} +
Also note, you cannot run Composer on the smallest server config. It’s fairly memory hungry, so min. 1GB is recommended.
