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We've been working with our hoster to install composer on a centos 5 with php 5.3.9, and though we get no installation errors, running composer with any command always gives us the following:

-bash-3.2$ composer help install

??+?-bash-3.2$

always this funny ??+? response.

This also happen when I download a composer.phar manually, and if I run composer.phar over php. Always the same issue. The provider technicians tried to install it with admin privileges and they also get this error. any ideas?

jmfuo
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  • Check your php.ini for an `error_log` directive. Check that location for error messages? – miken32 Oct 22 '15 at 19:47
  • You probably shouldn't run Composer on the production server. Here are some details: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21721495/how-to-deploy-correctly-when-using-composers-develop-production-switch/21722205#21722205 – Sven Oct 22 '15 at 21:54
  • We need to run composer once to install drush 7 – jmfuo Oct 23 '15 at 06:17
  • I ran composer using php -c with a custom php.ini where I turned error logging on and the log path to an own file, but I get no logged errors. I set `log_errors = On` and `error_log = path_to_file` – jmfuo Oct 23 '15 at 06:19

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I fixed the problem by running:

curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --check

It gave me some php.ini settings I needed.

Then I ran composer using:

php -c pathToPhp.ini pathToComposer.phar

jmfuo
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