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How to fix composer is not recognized as an internal and external Command Error in Terminal
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Jun 7, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you that
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how to fix this error message if you
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type composer inside your terminal And
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if you are getting this error message
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that composer is not recognized as an
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internal or external command If you're
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seeing this error message then in this
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video I'll show you how to fix this Uh
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I'm assuming that you have installed
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composer Composer is nothing but it's a
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dependency manager for your PHP
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applications similar to node So if you
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haven't installed it then definitely go
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to this website click on download and
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download the installer file which is
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composer
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setup.exe I've already installed it but
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I can't access it in the terminal So for
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for uh fixing this you need to go to the
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location where composer is installed So
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by default it's stored in the C drive Uh
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there is a folder called as pro program
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data By default it's hidden So it will
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appear like this program data just
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outside just below the program files
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folder Just open this folder and right
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here you will find out a folder called
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as composer setup So this is your folder
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right here composer setup Just open this
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and just go to the bin
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directory and these are your composer
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files right here Bad file right If you
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try to open command line here type the
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same command
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composer So it will give you this uh new
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error which is PHP is not recognized as
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an internal or external command Just
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make sure that PHP is also stored inside
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the path variable as well because
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composer is dependent upon PHP So that's
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why
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So what you need to do first of all
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right click copy this entire
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path Just open environment
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variable and uh go to system
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variable Just select
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path Add this entry paste this entire
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path Okay Okay Okay And also you need to
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add the path for the PHP So for PHP I'm
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using exam control panel I'm assuming
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that is so exam comes with the Apache
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server MySQL
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database So Examp is a very po
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uh popular software for
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PHP for downloading PHP as a local
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software So if you are using exam then
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perfectly okay So wherever you install
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PHP by default it's stored inside the C
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drive in the case of exam So there is a
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folder PHP folder if you
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see and
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just also add this folder as well Right
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click uh copy this location also add
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this folder Again repeat the same
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process Open environment
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variable and go to system
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variable select
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path and paste this location So you will
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see you need to paste two paths here
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First of all for the composer second for
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the PHP And just now okay Okay Just
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restart the terminal and just type the
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same command here Composer So now you
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will see the composer command will
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perfectly work So in this easy way you
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can fix this error message also the PHP
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command will also work So in this easy
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way guys you can fix this error message
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