Setting Systemwide $PATH for Composer and Laravel

[Nathan]

In the Laravel installation documentation it says:

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Make sure to place composer’s system-wide vendor bin directory in your $PATH so the laravel executable can be located by your system. This directory exists in different locations based on your operating system; however, some common locations include:

macOS: $HOME/.composer/vendor/bin

GNU / Linux Distributions: $HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin

 

But it really doesn’t mention how to do this and assumes you’re already a system administrator on Linux 

When logged in a root via SSH you can run the following command to set the path above.  Keep in mind we’re running on CentOS 7 64-bit so if you are on another flavor of Linux you’re $PATH could be different.

export PATH="~/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

The composer and laravel command will now work globally in different directories and when switching other users.