Use the information on this page to install Acquia CLI in your development environment.
Note
Acquia CLI is distributed only as a self-contained Phar archive. It should not be installed through Composer, as this can create dependency conflicts.
Acquia CLI requires PHP 7.4 or later with the PHP-JSON and PHP-PHAR extensions enabled. Acquia CLI will warn you if these requirements are not met.
Some commands require a Cloud Platform account. Acquia CLI will prompt you to link your Cloud Platform account when running commands that require it (see Authenticating with Cloud Platform API).
Open up your Terminal application and type the following commands to automatically install Acquia CLI. Remember to press Enter on your keyboard to execute each command.
Download the appropriate version of Acquia CLI based on the PHP version:
For PHP 8.0 or later, download the latest version of Acquia CLI:
curl -OL https://github.com/acquia/cli/releases/latest/download/acli.phar
For PHP 7.4, download the version 1.30.1 specifically:
curl -OL https://github.com/acquia/cli/releases/download/1.30.1/acli.phar
Make the file executable.
chmod +x acli.phar
Rename the file and move it to a location that is globally accessible.
This step allows you to type acli from anywhere on your system.
Note
The following command may require the use of sudo on some
systems. If it fails for you, prefix the command with sudo.
When prompted for a password, specify your password.
mv acli.phar /usr/local/bin/acli
Run acli from anywhere on your system to view the installed version
of Acquia CLI and a list of commands.
Note
Acquia CLI does not require the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It runs natively in any environment that has the necessary version of PHP and extensions.
Download the appropriate version of Acquia CLI based on the PHP version:
Open a command-line interface and run php acli.phar.
You can view the installed version of Acquia CLI and a list of commands. If you run into a SSL certificate issue, review this known issue.
In CMD and Powershell, Phar files including Acquia CLI must be run using the PHP CLI interpreter in the directory where the Phar is installed. To instead run Acquia CLI as an executable from another directory, create a batch script such as the following:
@ECHO OFF
php %~dp0acli.phar %*
Acquia CLI is best installed through a Phar file. The following is an advanced procedure, so you must use this procedure only when you cannot install Acquia CLI natively or when you create a custom Docker image on top of it.
For more information about Docker, read the docs.
Note
For all commands that need to invoke the Cloud Platform API, you must prefix commands with your API token and secret as environment variables.
Clone the Acquia CLI Git repository and navigate into it.
git clone [email protected]:acquia/cli.git
cd cli
Build the Docker image:
docker build -t acli .
To run Acquia CLI commands, do one of the following:
Create a container that gets destroyed immediately after you run a command:
docker run -e ACLI_KEY=<key> \
-e ACLI_SECRET=<secret> \
-it acli \
php /usr/local/bin/acli -n <command>
Run the commands interactively:
docker run -it acli sh
/ # ACLI_KEY=<key> ACLI_SECRET=<secret> acli -n <command1>
/ # ACLI_KEY=<key> ACLI_SECRET=<secret> acli -n <command2>
Note
On certain systems or PHP builds where the php-phar extension is not
installed, you cannot run acli. Ensure that you install or compile
with the extension if PHP returns Class 'Phar' not found.
After installing Acquia CLI, proceed to Getting started with Acquia CLI.
To enable a larger audience to test new features, Acquia might publish unstable releases such as Alpha or Beta.
Note
Preview releases may contain critical bugs. Therefore, use them at your own risk.
To allow Acquia CLI to download unstable releases, run the following command:
$ acli self-update --preview
Downloading Acquia CLI (acquia/cli) 1.30.0-beta1
Download finished
Successfully updated acli
To revert Acquia CLI to downloading stable releases only, run the following command:
$ acli self-update --stable
Downloading Acquia CLI (acquia/cli) 1.30.0
Download finished
Successfully updated acli
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