Composer Memory Limit

Question

I installed composer global at a Webhosting-Server. Now I can call it via

composer

But if I want to install something I get a memory limit er

Answer 1

alias composer='php -d memory_limit=1024M -d suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=phar,http://,https:// /is/htdocs/xxxxxx_xxxxx/script/composer/composer.phar'

Worked for me

I use an alias for composer so I don't need to call the whole path if I want to use composer. But with this alias I am not able to call composer via "composer.phar". So I added the memory limit command to the alias function which worked for me.

Answer 2

When calling Composer binary by using php CLI directly, you need to provide the full path to the Composer phar, e.g., if it were installed in /usr/local/bin, you would call it with:

php -d memory_limit=1024M /usr/local/bin/composer.phar

Answer 3

In my case, I had a VM and increasing the memory lmit of my VM solved my problem