composer using wrong php package

Hi,

I'm running cPanel 62.0.16, WHM 62.0 (build 16) and am developing magento 2 stores. Composer is installed in /opt/cpanel/ and when navigating to that directory I see

.. composer ea-apr15 ea-php54 ea-php55 ea-php56 ea-php70 libmcrypt perl5
so my php70 package is there.

In my magento 2 directory my magento 2 store uses the ea-php70 just fine. But when I want to use composer I find that composer seems to use ea-php54 (the cPanel default???) and I cannot tell it to use the ea-php70 that I have installed for my magento 2 store.

I get errors like allow_url_fopen must be enabled (indeed it is enabled for my ea-php70 package and is not enabled for my ea-php54 package) and allowed memory exceeded (my ea-php54 package only has a memory_limit of 32 but I don't use it anyway)

How can I tell composer to use the ea-php70 package that I specifically made for my magento 2 stores? And why on earth is it using that php54 package??? I can't even run composer self-update because of the php54...

I have looked everywhere and WHM is great but somehow Composer in cPanel keeps falling back on a package and PHP version that I do not want it to use.

Can anybody tell me why and how to change that?

Thank you very much in advance
regards,
Isolde

 

Hi,

In the document root where I use composer I have uploaded a phpinfo.php and the php.ini path reads:
/opt/cpanel/ea-php70/root/etc
also, it says at the top PHP Version 7.0.16 as expected. Also it says:
memory_limit 768M (local value) 128M (master value)
which is correct and as expected.
However, composer gets stuck at 128M (the master value) and uses the master php 5.6.30 (cli) which seems to be used by cPanel
php -v shows me :
ea-php-cli Copyright 2016 cPanel, Inc.
PHP 5.6.30 (cli) (built: Feb 22 2017 20:54:02)
and php -r "echo ini_get('memory_limit').PHP_EOL;" shows me :
128M
Because I'm developing Magento 2 stores I want my composer to use my ea-php70 package that I have made for this. However, no matter what I try (e.g. updating PATH), composer keeps using the wrong ea-php package and I can't seem to change that.
:-(

 

Hello cPanelMichael,

In the end I moved my non-php7 projects to an older server and set cPanel to default to ea-php70 package. Setting cPanel to default to ea-php70 package and having my non-php7 projects set to ea-php56 did not work well. It is not my preferred solution but because of project pressure I have no choice. Even though it is now "solved" for me I decided to place a ticket anyway, I would like to see Composer use the right package (the one installed where I use Composer rather then the cPanel default php package) or I would like to learn how I can make Composer use the right package
Thank you for your help. My Support Request ID is: 8317099.