Install wp-cli via laragon terminal?

[Marc Thornton]

Hi there, hope you can help? Trying to install wp-cli (for the 1st time) via the laragon terminal using the instructions from the official wp-cli guide: https://make.wordpress.org/cli/handbook/installing/

Everything worked until the very last command:

sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp
^ fails..
'sudo' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

So i then tried manually moving the file via windows explorer to C:\laragon\usr\bin

..then typed wp --info into terminal to which i get:

'wp' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

[leokhoa]

@Marc-Thornton : sudo is a command in Linux. You can check bin\composer to see known how to handle .phar file.

[Marc Thornton]

Sorry, having difficulty deciphering what you meant? I understand that .phar is a compressed file but what did you mean by 'check'? Googling that led me to this article

I downloaded composer using these instructions

..so now I have the following in my laragon/www/ directory:

composer.phar
wp-cli.phar

Typing: php wp-cli.phar --info
Does output the right info
But I still can't bind wp to replace php wp-cli.phar?

...and none the wiser as to how composer.phar comes into this?

FYI - php bin/composer.phar produces Could not open input file: bin/composer.phar and the same with php bin/wp-cli.phar. Typing the filename creates an OS modal for me to select the application to open it with.

Thanks for your patience.

[Marc Thornton]

Shall i just install Windows Subsystem for Linux and follow the original wp-cli install guide?

[mnelson4]

I'm pretty sure the wp cli instructions are assuming you're using a linux machine (or at least a linux virtual machine or subsystem). So they'll need to be tweaked a bit, seeing how Laragon is running on Windows. Not sure how yet, just learned about Laragon today!

[mnelson4]

Here's some instructions for installing WP CLI on windows: https://deluxeblogtips.com/install-wp-cli-windows/ which should help (I haven't gone through them all yet)

[Marc Thornton]

@mnelson4 thanks, look forward to giving that a try in the morning!

[leokhoa]

Thanks @mnelson4, after seeing the long article from you link. I decided to create a tutorial for that. It is very easy with Laragon.
You can check it here:
https://forum.laragon.org/topic/1039/tutorial-how-to-add-wp-cli-to-laragon

Sorry @Marc-Thornton, I was busy improving the Auto Generated SSL feature for Laragon 3.3.1 and did not notice that you were still stuck on it. I hope this helps.

[leokhoa]

@Marc-Thornton : I've also updated with the lazy way:

cd C:\laragon\usr\bin && curl -L -O https://raw.github.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar &&  echo @ECHO OFF > wp.bat && echo php "%~dp0wp-cli.phar" %* >> wp.bat

[Marc Thornton]

@leokhoa ah that's so easy! works great, appreciated.