Editing BFH Handwriting Website Deployment (section)

=== Installing and updating packages ===
 
* Composer requirements are stored in `composer.json`.
** Edit this file locally and upload it to the Namecheap server. 
** Do not edit `composer.json` directly on the production server.
** Do not add requirements to `composer.json` on production by running `composer require` commands on the production server. 
* `composer` arguments
** `.phar` files are not whitelisted in Namecheap's `php.ini`. It's necessary to override this when installing and running `composer`, e.g. `-d suhosin.executor.include/whitelist=phar`
** Namecheap puts a low memory limit on the PHP processes. It may be necessary to increase this limit, e.g. `-d memory_limit=1G`
** Authorize.net's documentations places some dependencies in `require-dev`, however running composer with the `--no-dev` option throws a bunch of errors. Even in production environments it's therefore necessary to not use this option.
** Some of Authorize.net's dependencies are hosted on GitHub. Therefore it's necessary to have access to the `git` executable in order to run `composer update`.

On the production server, in the root directory of the site, run: 

<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
$ php -d suhosin.executor.include.whitelist=phar -d memory_limit=1G composer.phar update
</syntaxhighlight>

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