WP-CLI – use on host’s shared server possible?

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

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Paulo Pinto. Reason: Improve formatting
• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months 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