Winter CMS 1.2.x - Update mit Composer

Winter CMS 1.2.x itself can not be updated directly within the backend. But it can easily be updated with Composer.

• Connect to your web hoster via SSH
• Go to the root directory of your Winter CMS installation.
• Verify if Composer is installed, otherwise the latest version can be downloaded to the root folder of your webpage installation.
  • wget https://getcomposer.org/download/latest-stable/composer.phar
• Update Winter CMS
  • php composer.phar update
  • Error handling
    • Depending on the configuration of your web hoster, you might get the following error message:
      • Composer cannot be run safely on non-CLI SAPIs with register_argc_argv=On. Aborting.
      • SAPI -> Server-API refers to the PHP API used to communicate with the WebServer, here composer expect it to be the CLI (command-line interface), and it might be set to CGI (Common Gateway Interface).
      • You can also verify which API the PHP executable provides by typing in php -v, as a reply you might get PHP 8.1.33 (cgi-fcgi)
      • For Strato, you can found the php-cli executable in the folder of the corresponding PHP version, e.g., /opt/RZphp81/bin/php-cli, this can be used to run Composer.
      • In this case the update can be performed with the following command: /opt/RZphp81/bin/php-cli composer.phar update.