Hi. I believe you can use WP-CLI without sudo, and you don’t need to place it under /usr/local/bin/. You could, for example, place it in the home directory of your user, if your user is foo, this would be /home/foo/.
Once you transferred the wp-cli.phar file to your server, you can move it to your home directory:
mv wp-cli.phar /home/foo/
WP-CLI’s docs recommends you rename the file to just wp:
cd /home/foo
mv wp-cli.phar wp
You then need to make the file executable:
chmod +x wp
Once this is done, you can run WP-cli from any directory as follows:
cd path-to-your-wordpress-site
./home/foo/wp --info
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This reply was modified 5 years ago by
Paulo Pinto. Reason: Improve formatting
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This reply was modified 5 years ago by Paulo Pinto. Reason: Improve formatting
Normally you can create a bin in your home account
e.g. /home/myaccount/bin
hopefully when you echo $PATH ~/bin is on your path
if not you can add it to your path in .profile
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
and reload your profile ( e.g. source .profile )
@alanfuller : Thanks for your input. I’ll keep your advice on hand.
@psrpinto : Thanks for your detailed help. I am okay up to the wp –info command.
My path is /home/crucl. The wp-cli is installed in that directory. I was successful at changing its name to “wp” as well as the chmod command.
When I type in wp –info in its directory, I get “command not found”. If I’m in another directory and type cd ./home/crucl/wp –info, I get the same error.
🤷🏻♂️
Note: unfortunately my server’s Terminal window doesn’t allow me to highlight and copy.
You can see a screen grab here:
Btw try shift-ctl-c ( or shift-cmd-c on mac )
For copy and shift-ctl-v for paste
To execute a program (that is not on your $PATH), you need to prefix it with ./, so you can execute wp as follows:
./wp --info
@alanfuller Thanks. Unfortunately I’m working with an iPad without a BT keyboard.
@psrpinto Thanks for that. I’ve gone through that stp but unfortunately I’m stuck when it comes to executing a wp-cli command
I’m in my blog’s directoy:
todw.us $ wp plugin status
bash: wp: command not found
That command is listed in the list of commands, so I’m at a loss.
Tod
Not sure if that helps, but to run WP from command line you might need to run if using php,i.e.:
/usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/bin/wp
My problem was the reverse, I own a server and I wanted as root to run WP sudoing the user account so files didn´t get the wrong ownership.
I created a .bash_aliases like:
function wp () {
userwp=/usr/bin/stat -c "%U" .
sudo -u “$userwp” — /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/bin/wp $@;
}
so now I can run WP when I´m on a WordPress installation and run any WP-CLI command
@ibertrix
I’m sorry for the late reply.
Thank you for your point of view. It looks interesting. I’ll experiment with it soon.
Cheers,
Tod
