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Have you removed the phar extension on the composer file?
If not you should be able to use the same trick and the run php <path to composer>/composer.phar.
I haven't tried but it should be a plausible workaround.
Mar 24, 2019
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Need workaround to run composer.
On my shared hosting it's possible to connect with SSH and install and run composer. I can also run php commands by first saving this alias:
alias php="/usr/local/php72/bin/php"
After that I can use the usual php artisan commands. But now to my question. When I try to run composer update it fails with error messages saying that the CLI php version is 5.6.3. I have asked the support people at my shared hosting, and apparently it's not possible to change the default php version for users, only for sites. So is there a way to run composer programmatically instead, from within the application? Or is there another workaround for this?
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YOU ARE THE BEST! After creating the php alias I mentioned that worked straight away, by adding the composer command after the line you proposed, like this:
php <path to composer>/composer.phar update
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