Laravel PHP command not found

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I installed Laravel using Composer without problems, but when I try to run laravel in the terminal, I get the following error:

-bash: laravel: command not found

The docs say that I need to do the following:

Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH so the laravel executable is found when you run the laravel command in your terminal.

How can I do that?

/Users/chema/google-cloud-sdk/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/Applications/Eclipse/sdk/platform-tools:/Applications/Eclipse/sdk/tools — chemitaxis, Oct 15 '14 at 07:15
Possible duplicate of [Laravel installation: How to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25373188/laravel-installation-how-to-place-the-composer-vendor-bin-directory-in-your) — MrTux, Feb 12 '18 at 14:27

score 367 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 02 '20 at 11:58

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Ok, I did that and it works:

nano ~/.bash_profile

And paste

export PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

do source ~/.bash_profile and enjoy ;)

Important: If you want to know the difference between bash_profile and bashrc please check this link

Note: For Ubuntu 16.04 running laravel 5.1, the path is: ~/.config/composer/vendor/bin

On other platforms: To check where your Composer global directory is, run composer global about. Add /vendor/bin to the directory that gets listed after "Changed current directory to ..." to get the path you should add to your PATH.

edited Jun 02 '20 at 11:58

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restart the terminal doesn't work in my case. I need to source ~/.bash_profile as well – Naing Lin Aung Sep 16 '15 at 02:52
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this is not the correct answer >> .bashrc file (not .bash_profile). – Asis Nov 05 '15 at 10:55
Thank you, this worked for me. I didn't have any `.bashrc` file and I do not want to create one with dependency to `.bask_profile` – Feb 26 '17 at 04:54
@NaingLinAung great tip , It won`t work without that tip .. But why if i close the terminal after working , it restop working ?? – mercury Sep 04 '17 at 18:59
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For anyone coming here, make sure you have laravel installer installed globally also: `composer global require "laravel/installer"` – Connor Leech Jan 17 '18 at 22:59
Would be great to make the note about Ubuntu 16.04 (well i'm on 18.04) super bold and super red and super large font. – John Jan 18 '20 at 05:49
PATH=~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH in ~/.profile on ubuntu16.04 did the trick for me – Itachi Sama Feb 13 '20 at 11:37
even after that i still get the same error, any idea on what to do? – Yanis Sep 28 '22 at 07:55
for me it was `export PATH=$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH` – user151496 Apr 17 '23 at 14:51

R T · Answer 2 · 2020-07-03T11:39:24.013

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Add the following to .bashrc file (not .bash_profile).

export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

at the end of the file and then in terminal run source ~/.bashrc

To verify that:

echo $PATH

(Restart the terminal, Check & Confirm the path is there)

Run the laravel command!

Note: For Ubuntu 16 and above use below:

export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

edited Jul 03 '20 at 11:39

answered Jan 13 '15 at 05:19

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You can find more information about the differences between these hidden files: http://www.joshstaiger.org/archives/2005/07/bash_profile_vs.html – chemitaxis Jan 10 '17 at 21:32
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late reply. hope it helps someone. check this https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/42537/why-must-i-source-bashrc-every-time-i-open-terminal-for-aliases-to-work. if you use .bahrc you need to reload every time. so add that in .bash_profile – Sibiraj May 09 '17 at 18:47
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I had to add ~/.config to the path.. depends on where the binary is – f_i Nov 25 '17 at 14:13
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It might be the '/root/.config/composer/vendor/bin' for linux distros – cagcak Feb 20 '18 at 17:32
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`export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" ` - the life saver on Ubuntu 18.04! :) – Subrata Sarkar Mar 23 '21 at 14:13
even after that i still get the same error, any idea on what to do? i have installed laravel as shown here: https://snipboard.io/BpvM8s.jpg and added the PATH as shown here: https://snipboard.io/7zy6qJ.jpg – Yanis Sep 28 '22 at 08:02
did you close the terminal and opened again to check the same? – R T Sep 29 '22 at 09:05
This `export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" ` worked for me in Ubuntu 22 – Mayank Dudakiya May 13 '23 at 08:31

score 108 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 28 '23 at 17:43

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When using MacBook, refer to the snippets below;

For fish:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >>  ~/.fishrc
source ~/.fishrc

For zsh:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >>  ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

For Bash:

echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

edited Mar 28 '23 at 17:43

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This overwrites your current zsh config. Do >> instead of >. – Arnold Balliu Dec 27 '16 at 19:02
Unable o login to my system after running above command .Please help me. – sowmya Mar 27 '20 at 06:08
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For my Ubuntu server it was export PATH=~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH – Chewie The Chorkie Apr 22 '20 at 15:31
even after that i still get the same error, any idea on what to do? i have installed laravel as shown here: https://snipboard.io/BpvM8s.jpg and added the PATH as shown here: https://snipboard.io/7zy6qJ.jpg – Yanis Sep 28 '22 at 08:02

score 88 · Answer 4 · edited Jun 02 '23 at 23:45

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Solution in link. In the terminal:

# download installer
composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"
#setting up path
export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH" 
# check laravel command
laravel 

# download installer
composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

nano ~/.bashrc

#add

alias laravel='~/.composer/vendor/bin/laravel'

source ~/.bashrc

laravel

# going to html dir to create project there
cd /var/www/html/
# install project in blog dir.
laravel new blog

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answered Jul 04 '15 at 19:10

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Thanks, I was missing the alias on my virtual machine, adding the folder to the PATH didn't help for some reason. – parrker9 Jun 10 '16 at 03:13
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you can use ``composer global require "laravel/installer" `` too – TuGordoBello Aug 08 '16 at 02:18
In Homestead I needed to set the laravel alias folder to this one instead `/home/vagrant/.config/composer/vendor /bin/laravel` – lucgenti Aug 25 '16 at 10:43
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Ubuntu 16.04. I also added the alias at ~/.bashrc `alias laravel='~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/laravel'` – Matiss Dec 29 '16 at 20:09
This works for me. Exporting the path to `~/.profile` does not do it. That step with `~/.bashrc` is necessary. – J. Doe Oct 03 '18 at 06:03
In Ubuntu 20.04 just adding `alias laravel='~/.composer/vendor/bin/laravel'` was enough – YTZ Oct 05 '20 at 23:26

score 43 · Answer 5 · answered Aug 18 '16 at 15:25

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Type on terminal:

 composer global require "laravel/installer"

When composer finish, type:

vi ~/.bashrc

Paste and save:

export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Type on terminal:

source ~/.bashrc

Open another terminal window and type: laravel

answered Aug 18 '16 at 15:25

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this one not working for me. But this worked : `export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin"` – Emre Doğan Nov 18 '16 at 10:12
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Looks like some composer versions use .config and other .composer. This was the answer that worked for me, without needed to add an alias or anything. Thanks! – Gerardo Rosciano Sep 12 '17 at 14:46
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Cheers!! This finally worked! for easy placement `echo 'export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc` load it with `source ~/.bashrc` – General Omosco Jan 12 '19 at 11:38
For Windows User : First step is enough if you installed composer as default – josanangel Jun 12 '22 at 09:16
Just this worked for Laravel 10 on Arch linux. Thank you so much. – GameO7er Feb 16 '23 at 11:45

Gujarat Santana · Answer 6 · 2017-01-10T02:24:15.117

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If you're using Ubuntu 16.04.

You need to find the composer config files in my case is :
~/.config/composer or in other cases ~/.composer/
you can see the dir after this command
composer global require "laravel/installer"
after Laravel Installed you can find your laravel in ~/.config/composer/vendor/laravel/installer/.
and you will find the Laravel shortcut command in here :
~/.config/composer/vendor/bin/
set your .bashrc using nano ~/.bashrc and export your composer config file :

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin"

or you can use allias. but above solution is recommended.

alias laravel='~/.config/composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel'
Now refresh your bashrc using source ~/.bashrc and then laravel is ready!!

above steps works with me in Ubuntu 16.04

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answered Jan 05 '17 at 03:40

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Why is it I need to type in source ~./bashrc everytime I want to use laravel new etc?? – Paul 501 Feb 12 '17 at 17:14
@Paul501 `source ~/.bashrc` is used to refresh the new setup in the file. So you can't have the new setup running in the current user session if you don't use `source` – Gujarat Santana Feb 12 '17 at 22:25
for more info you can read it here : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2518127/how-do-i-reload-bashrc-without-logging-out-and-back-in – Gujarat Santana Feb 12 '17 at 22:25
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`alias laravel='~/.config/composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel'` did the trick for me! – davejal Apr 23 '17 at 22:59
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This solution still works on Ubuntu 20.04 – El Sordo Aug 19 '23 at 13:20

score 22 · Answer 7 · edited Feb 08 '18 at 06:51

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For zsh and bash:

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

source ~/.zshrc
source ~/.bashrc

For bash only:

export PATH=~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH

source ~/.bashrc

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Sophy · Answer 8 · 2016-07-04T03:46:15.873

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For Developers use zsh Add the following to .zshrc file

vi ~/.zshrc or nano ~/.zshrc

export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

at the end of the file.

zsh doesn't know ~ so instead it by use $HOME.

source ~/.zshrc

Done! try command laravel you will see.

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answered Jul 04 '16 at 03:40

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Mentioning about zsh doesn't know ~. Saved my day! – Arafat Mar 25 '23 at 06:42

score 11 · Answer 9 · edited May 28 '23 at 14:25

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If you are on macOS or *nix just run this in your terminal:

export PATH="$HOME/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

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score 7 · Answer 10 · answered Apr 27 '17 at 02:32

For those using Linux with Zsh:

1 - Add this line to your .zshrc file

export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

2 - Run

source ~/.zshrc

Linux path to composer folder is different from Mac
Use $HOME instead of ~ inside the path with Zsh
The .zshrc file is hidden in the Home folder
export PATH= exports the path in quotes so that the Laravel executable can be located by your system
The :$PATH is to avoid overriding what was already in the system path

score 7 · Answer 11 · answered Feb 11 '21 at 22:22

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If you are coming here 2021 this has worked for me also using Ubuntu 16.04

nano ~/.bash_profile 
export PATH=$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH
ctrl+x and save 
source ~/.bash_profile

answered Feb 11 '21 at 22:22

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score 4 · Answer 12 · edited Feb 08 '18 at 12:39

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I set the PATH,but it didn't work.I find other way to solve it. (OSX 10.10 & laravel 5.2)
1) find the executable file:

~/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel

2) give execute permissions:

chmod +x ~/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel

3) make a soft link to /usr/bin:

sudo ln -s /Users/zhao/.composer/vendor/laravel/installer/laravel /usr/bin/laravel

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score 4 · Answer 13 · answered Feb 02 '18 at 20:09

For MAC users:

1. Open terminal

cd ~

2. Double check the $PATH

echo $PATH

3. Edit file

nano ~/.bash_profile

4. PASTE

export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Don't forget to put quotation marks.

5. control + X (y + enter to save the file and exit)

Now start vagrant, go to your folder and try:

laravel new yourprojectname

score 3 · Answer 14 · answered Oct 08 '18 at 09:27

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type on terminal:

nano ~/.bash_profile

then paste:

export PATH="/Users/yourusername/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

then save (press ctrl+c, press Y, press enter)

now you are ready to use "laravel" on your terminal

answered Oct 08 '18 at 09:27

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Jun 18 '18 at 10:16

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If you have Composer installed globally, you can install the Laravel installer tool using command below:

composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

answered Jun 18 '18 at 10:16

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score 0 · Answer 16 · answered May 21 '20 at 06:26

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Late answer...

Composer 1.10.1 2020-03-13 20:34:27 laravel --version Laravel Installer 3.0.1

Put export PATH=$PATH:~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH in your ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc source ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc This works

answered May 21 '20 at 06:26

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Jun 12 '20 at 08:23

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Composer should be installed globally: Run this in your terminal:

    mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

Now composer commands will work.

answered Jun 12 '20 at 08:23

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score -1 · Answer 18 · answered Nov 11 '20 at 12:37

My quick way of creating a new project

//install composer locally on web root - run the code from: https://getcomposer.org/download/

Then install laravel:

php composer.phar require laravel/installer

Then create the project without adding anything to any path

vendor/laravel/installer/bin/laravel new [ProjectName]

//add project to git

cd ProjectName
git init
git remote add origin git@...[youGitPathToProject]

Wondering if this way of doing it has any issues - please let me know

score -3 · Answer 19 · edited Aug 22 '19 at 13:38

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Just use it:

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel youprojectname

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