PHP Composer - set vendor directory
Solution 1
Turns out there's a there's a simple solution: If you want to change the location of your vendor assets then you must follow these simple steps:
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include the composer-asset-plugin in your
composer.json
file"require": { "fxp/composer-asset-plugin": "*" }
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include the composer-asset-plugin directive in your extra config. in your composer.json file:
"extra": { "asset-installer-paths": { "npm-asset-library": "../../path/to/vendors/npm", "bower-asset-library": "../../path/to/vendors/bower" } }
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add the vendor location to the config section in your composer.json file:
"config": { "vendor-dir": "../../path/to/vendors" }
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update web/index.php to point to the new vendor location:
require(__DIR__ . '/../../../path/to/vendors/autoload.php'); require(__DIR__ . '/../../../path/to/vendors/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php');
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include a vendorPath definition in your config/web.php:
'vendorPath' => '../../../path/to/vendors',
That should work with the vanilla Yii2 basic template.
Solution 2
This works for me:
sudo cp -R bower-asset/* bower
Simply copy all files and folders from bower-asset to bower.
Solution 3
The asset-installer-paths
directive belongs to the Composer plugin fxp/composer-asset-plugin
.
The plugin is required, for this directive to work. But it seems that you are not requiring it in your project repo or globally.
Try a global installation:
composer global require "fxp/composer-asset-plugin:~1.0"
Mr Goobri
Updated on April 08, 2020Comments
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Mr Goobri about 4 years
I'm having trouble configuring the vendor path for a Yii2 application. I am adding a couple of lines to the composer.json file I get from the Yii2 basic app template. All I want to do is change the location of my vendor assets.
Below are the changes I have made to the files but I get this error:
The file or directory to be published does not exist: /path/to/app/vendor/bower/jquery/dist
But I'm expecting that particular asset to be published to:
/path/to/vendors/bower/jquery/dist
No matter what I do, I still get that error message. I suspect it's a Yii2 issue and not a composer issue but I'm not sure. Anyone got any ideas? Thanks in advance.
Files...
index.php
// comment out the following two lines when deployed to production defined('YII_DEBUG') or define('YII_DEBUG', true); defined('YII_ENV') or define('YII_ENV', 'dev'); require('/path/to/vendors/autoload.php'); require('/path/to/vendors/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php'); $config = require(__DIR__ . '/../config/web.php'); (new yii\web\Application($config))->run();
composer.json
{ "name": "yiisoft/yii2-app-basic", "description": "Yii 2 Basic Project Template", "keywords": ["yii2", "framework", "basic", "project template"], "homepage": "http://www.yiiframework.com/", "type": "project", "license": "BSD-3-Clause", "support": { ... }, "minimum-stability": "dev", "config": { "process-timeout": 1800, "vendor-dir": "/path/to/vendors" }, "require": { "fxp/composer-asset-plugin": "~1.0", ... }, "extra": { "asset-installer-paths": { "npm-asset-library": "../../includes/vendors/npm", "bower-asset-library": "../../includes/vendors/bower" } } }