title: AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Composer
body: <p>I have an application with Composer dependencies which I want to deploy to an Elastic Beanstalk container.  However my composer.json file is not in the project root folder.  My project root has the following structure:</p>
  
  <pre><code>- .ebextensions
  - scripts
  - www (Webroot)
    - composer.json
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And I have set the document root to /www in the container configuration options.  The issue is that I need to install composer on the box and run the composer install script to add the project dependencies.  I understand that during a deploy EB will check to see if there is a composer.json file in the project root and install Composer but in this case my composer.json file is in a sub-directory.  </p>
  
  <p>I thought that could use .ebextenstions to add commands to install Composer and dependencies after the application has been deployed.  I created a file .ebextensions/01-composer.config with the following container commands:</p>
  
  <pre><code>container_commands:
    01-install-composer:
      command: "curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php"
    02-install-packages:
      command: "php composer.phar install"
      cwd: "/var/app/current/www/"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But my app won't deploy with this configuration.  Would appreciate some assistance to see where I am going wrong.  </p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>