@eriktailor Can you elaborate on how you installed Composer? I'm a little lost atm, I have just found Indigo today after looking for an alternative for Mamp. I work with Craft and am having trouble - I have installed Craft 5, I can see the site and the admin, but I can't install any plugins. I'm getting "Composer was unable to install the updates." and "Exit Code: 127(Command not found)" - I'm assuming this means I need to install Composer somewhere else for it to work with sites running on Indigo. Any ideas?

@eriktailor I'm hoping you are happy to share how you installed it as per @grace_c's request above. That said, my assumption is that the official instructions should just work as usual. I'm hazy on it because I already had it before building Indigo 🙂

I'm intrigued that MAMP appears to distribute a copy of composer. It's probably not a bad idea for Indigo to do likewise. I'll put that on my to-do.

    Indigo Hi, thanks for your quick response! I do have composer running and have never had issues with it before, in fact I installed Craft 5 using the composer method, so it's quite possible there is a different issue going on here. I'll wait for eriktailor's response and see if they can shed any light on this before I follow up directly Craft. It's possible I'm just installing composer in the wrong directory within Indigo's files?

    In general though Indigo is working really well for me, I think this is a totally separate issue and I really like how it all works, nice and easy!

      Great, thanks for the positive feedback 🙂

      Interesting that you already have composer; can you confirm it's available in your shell? You can do this in your Terminal by entering which composer to confirm it's found.

      Also, you'll need PHP accessible on the command line, so I would recommend using Indigo's shell integration. Sorry if those docs are offputting — they may need a bit of a re-visit; let me know if they don't make sufficient sense.

        Indigo running which composer returns /opt/homebrew/bin/composer. I use it regularly. So I'm just quite confused about this issue!

        I have to apologise as I'm very ignorant about these kinds of things and just struggle along until something works! I did install shell integration and have followed the instructions to set my Local-development stack as default, but I'm not sure what I do with it.

          Sorry, I just re-read your original question and realise your Composer sounds like it's being found just fine. To be sure it's running ok, try composer --version. I should also have asked you to run which php and php -v just to confirm php is all good.

          Can you tell me the exact composer command you're attempting? Also perhaps try running it with -vvv on the end to give more verbose output.

            Indigo What directory should I be in when running these commands? Or does it not matter?

            All I'm trying to do is install a plugin in the site's Craft admin, but it's telling me the command is not found.

            I'm not sure whether this is a Craft issue or an Indigo issue tbh. I'm trying to rule out it being an Indigo setup thing that I haven't covered before opening a ticket with Craft.

              Response from Craft:

              I'm not too familiar with Indigo but from those errors, it sounds like PHP isn't installed/enabled - potentially because this is happening on the command line rather than the web server version of PHP.

              So if anyone knows how to address that, I'm all ears!

              The php command being built and run by Craft will be run inside a specific shell environment, and at that point is unlikely to find the php provided by Indigo. It's a very similar issue to this one, I believe.

              The fix described on that issue looks good, although I take strong exception to the following:

              If you're using mamp or any other awkward environment where php isn't in the system path; this would likely work for you too.

              Perhaps by awkward he meant clever 🤣

              Anyway, that random diversion aside (haha), here's the suggestion from that post that I hope may work for you:

              I added a PATH="/opt/rh/rh-php73/root/usr/bin:/opt/rh/rh-mysql56/root/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin" to the top of my sites .env file. (usually in the SITEROOT/craft/ folder) and now updates succeed and database backups work too.

              To achieve this in your case, you'd need to do the following:

              1) In the terminal, run your indigo.set.your-stack-name command to set up PHP etc for that terminal session.

              2) now you can run which php to get the path to your Indigo PHP. This should output something like: /Users/username/.indigo/stacks/5949E1/php_ACDA/bin/php. Copy this for later, without the final /php.

              3) do the same for MySQL: which mysql should output something like /Users/username/.indigo/stacks/5949E1/mysql_8AA8/bin/mysql. Copy this for later, without the final /mysql.

              4) find your Craft site's .env file. It should be in your Craft site's root (press cmd+shift+. to see hidden files in the Finder if needed)

              5) modify the following as needed using the above two outputs, and put it at the top of your .env file:

              PATH="/Users/username/.indigo/stacks/5949E1/php_ACDA/bin:/Users/username/.indigo/stacks/5949E1/mysql_8AA8/bin"

              The final :/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin mentioned in the stackexchange post is not correct for a mac (at least not an Apple Silicon mac), but if Craft exhibits other issues after you add the new PATH line, let me know and we can work out what should go there (or Craft support may be a better source for that info).

              Phew, that's long! Let me know how you go! Thanks for persevering 🙂

                Please ignore all this, strangely I think the issue was because I had brackets in the stack name! When I removed those and restarted Indigo everything is now working as expected. I'll carry on with your instructions and let you know how it goes.

                Right, first of all thank you for taking the time to answer this for me so thoroughly! I am going to run through all your steps as described above, but I'm having a strange problem that's preventing me from doing so. Yesterday I installed Shell integration and I was able to run indi + tab to then run the indigo.set command, but today it's not working. Nothing happens when I type indi and hit tab now. I'm so sorry to bring you yet another problem, but what am I doing wrong here? Indigo is running, do I need to be in a certain folder for this to work?

                I have uninstalled and reinstalled Shell integration, then opened a new terminal window but nothing is happening.

                If I open a new Terminal window I get the following at the top:

                /Users/gracecoote/.indigo/.profile:3: no matches found: indigo.set.Local-development-(Craft-5).default=source /Users/gracecoote/.indigo/stacks/8516B0/exports/default.export.sh

                So strange when it worked perfectly yesterday!

                Indigo Pleased to report that that worked an absolute treat, plugins are now installing, no issues anymore. Thank you so so much for this, I really do feel clueless in situations like this one so your excellent support is very much appreciated. Indigo seems to be really up my street, very simple to run, all the Docker/DDEV stuff that Craft push as their installation method just did not work for me no matter what I tried. Indigo is so straight forward and also allows me to run multiple environments, which is ideal. Plus not having the edit the hosts file myself is a nice plus! So yes, I agree when they said "awkward" they definitely meant "clever" 😉

                Thanks again!

                  7 days later

                  That's fantastic — thanks for the success report 🙂

                  9 months later

                  I'm having the exact issue. My local craft cannot install plugins. It results in the same error as reported above.

                  I was trying your suggestion, indigo, but am only getting an error that the command indigo is not found. Maybe I need to update my path or? Can you help me out? I'm running this in Mac terminal.

                  Hi @mosswalker,

                  Can I confirm you're talking about this:

                  Indigo 1) In the terminal, run your indigo.set.your-stack-name command to set up PHP etc for that terminal session.

                  If so, it sounds like you may not yet have installed Indigo's shell integration. To do this, launch Indigo, then in the menubar, select Indigo > Install shell integration… After this, open a new terminal window and you should have access to the indigo.set.your-stack-name thing.

                  Let me know if I've misunderstood 🙂

                      Indigo

                      All is well. Thank you for the response. I have it running. I'll leave a couple of notes for anyone else about what I needed to do.

                      I had the shell utility installed, but for whatever reason, indigo.set.craftStack was giving a zsh command not found error (my stack name is craftStack).

                      This worked, however:

                      indigo.set.craftStack.default

                      I was able to set the path from your suggestion after that, but had two other issues:

                      • I had left the /php and /mysql on the end, because I failed to read your directions closely or even think about it.
                      • as reported the this post that you shared, the craft site's index.php needs to be modified:

                      Find and change the line:

                      Dotenv\Dotenv::create(CRAFT_BASE_PATH)->load();
                      to

                      Dotenv\Dotenv::create(CRAFT_BASE_PATH)->overload();

                        Thanks for the update, and glad you got it working. Thanks also for documenting what you did, that's really helpful!

                        Overall, I do find it pretty odd that Craft is running binaries using php's exec; ironically I think it may be an attempt to make installation easier by running install commands for you. Or I could be totally misunderstanding what they're doing 🙂

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