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How to install wp-cli on smarthost.pl servers?

To install wp-cli you must first enable ssh access. Below you will find a guide on how to do this: Enable SSH access yourself.

IMPORTANT: ssh access works for all accounts. To access ssh on the test account, please contact us at hosting@smarthost.eu

Then, on Windows, log in to ssh using a client, e.g. PUTTY, it is free and you can download it from the website: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

Linux users can login using the terminal using the command below:

ssh -p 5739 login@custromer-name.smarthost.eu

We install and run the program. In the first field, enter our cPanel login, then @, then the name of our account at Smarthost.pl. In the second field, we enter port 5739.

First, make sure you are in the default directory, e.g. /home/customerlogin, using the pwd command

Then download wp-cli with the wget command:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar

Then we can use two methods.

I. Method (easier)

Using this method, you can use the aliases we have prepared earlier, appropriate for each version of php.

php56-cli
php70-cli
php71-cli
php72-cli

After downloading wp-cli.phar, just enter php72-cli wp-cli.phar –info. This way you can use wp-cli without any additional configuration.

II. Method (more difficult)

The next step to be done is editing .bashrc. For this purpose, we can use the nano or mcedit editor. For the purposes of the tutorial, I will use mcedit.

mcedit .bashrc

After executing the above command, the editor window should appear

Due to the ability to choose the PHP version on your hosting accounts, you decide which PHP version wp-cli to use. For this, we add a command alias to make it easier to navigate and choose the php version. The path /home/customerlogin is the path where we downloaded wp-cli.

Important: You only need to select one from the list below for the php version you are using.

For PHP 5.6
alias wp=’/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/php /home/loginklienta/wp-cli.phar’
For PHP 7.1
alias wp=’/opt/cpanel/ea-php71/root/usr/bin/php /home/loginklienta/wp-cli.phar’
For PHP 7.2
alias wp=’/opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/usr/bin/php /home/loginklienta/wp-cli.phar’

Use the F2 key to save and then use F10 to exit the editor.

The last step is to load the configuration in the current session. New SSH sessions will automatically load the configuration.

. .bashrc

After all these steps have been taken, we can test wp-cli with the command below.

wp –info

OS: Linux 3.10.0-714.10.2.lve1.4.75.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 3 04:25:16 EDT 2017 x86_64
Shell: /bin/bash
PHP binary: /opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/usr/bin/php
PHP version: 7.2.3
php.ini used: /opt/cpanel/ea-php72/root/etc/php.ini
WP-CLI root dir: phar://wp-cli.phar
WP-CLI vendor dir: phar://wp-cli.phar/vendor
WP_CLI phar path: /home/bartlomiej
WP-CLI packages dir:
WP-CLI global config:
WP-CLI project config:
WP-CLI version: 1.5.0