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My question is the following, if I contract a hosting that supports laravel, this should already have the composer already installed, or should it be installed?
How can I realize that my hosting service really supports laravel 5.5 from linux console by ssh connection?
Big difference in hosting like digitalocean and shared hosting.
Laravel works on both if the PHP version meets the requirements.
Only shared you usually FTP everything.
If you would do a search you will find that details of how to do both have been covered here probably 500 times.
And I mean covered in great detail with pictures folder structure even down to the most minuet detail.
To find out about composer from command line:
$ which composer.phar
$ which composer
/usr/local/bin/composer # if installed you should see something like this
composer isn't really part of any core Linux distro, so you may have to install it. If you really want a one-and-done setup, that is what Forge is for:
of course, you'll pay a little for the convenience.
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