PHP Composer can't find composer.json file for my project
composer-php
Solution
It looks like you're executing php composer.phar install in /root path.
Problem
I have successfully installed Composer in the root directory (that was the default choice) on my Linux/Apache server using their installation guide. It's all been very simple so far, except for one php.ini tweak I've had to make (`detect_unicode = Off`) but now I'm stuck. I'm trying to install Ratchet using Composer, with the use of this guide: http://socketo.me/docs/install It says I need to "create a file called composer.json in your project folder". So I created that file (with the contents they gave on their page) using the cPanel file manager, in my application's root directory. However, when I run Composer using: ``` php composer.phar install ``` PuTTy gives the following error message: ``` Composer could not find a composer.json file in /root To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the http://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section ``` But this doesn't seem to make sense, why would I place the JSON file in the server's root if the documentation says to place it in the project folder? What am I missing?