Project Terminal

The Terminal icon on a project's row ("Open a terminal in this folder") opens a shell in the project's folder, set up so that php, node, npm, and npx are the versions that project uses, not whatever happens to be first on your system PATH.

That's what keeps php artisan migrate from running on PHP 8.1 when the site itself is served by PHP 8.4.

What's set up

For the terminal it opens, and only for that terminal, Rezure:

• Puts the project's PHP first on PATH: the version the project is pinned to, or the global active version if it isn't pinned (or if its pinned version has since been removed).
• Puts the project's Node.js next: its pinned Node, or the global active Node.
• Adds C:\rezure\etc\php\conf.d to PHP_INI_SCAN_DIR, so your own PHP settings load in the terminal just as they do for the site. See PHP Configuration.

Nothing is changed system-wide. Other terminals, your editor's built-in terminal, and Windows itself are unaffected.

The terminal is a plain Command Prompt (cmd) window, not Windows Terminal. Windows Terminal reuses its existing window and ignores per-launch environment variables, which would silently drop the versions above. Rezure only uses Windows Terminal when there's nothing to set: no PHP and no Node installed.

The environment is fixed when the terminal opens. If you change a project's pin, close the terminal and open a new one from the project's row.

Check what you got

where php
php -v
node -v

where php lists the PHP Rezure put first at the top.

Running Composer

Rezure doesn't put a composer command on PATH. Two ways to run it:

• A global Composer you installed yourself (the Composer-Setup installer, Scoop, and so on). It runs on whichever php is first on PATH: in a project terminal, the project's version.

• Rezure's own Composer, through PHP:

  php C:\rezure\bin\composer\2.8.12\composer.phar install

  Replace 2.8.12 with the version in your C:\rezure\bin\composer folder. A one-line composer.bat somewhere on your PATH makes this shorter:

  @php C:\rezure\bin\composer\2.8.12\composer.phar %*

Composer versions are installed from the Switch page.

Typical commands

php artisan migrate
php artisan queue:work
npm install
npm run dev

A dev server started with npm run dev runs in this terminal, not under Rezure. Close the window (or press Ctrl + C) to stop it.

For a Vite, Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, or Node project you usually don't need to: Open on the project's row starts the dev server under Rezure on the port its .test domain points at. See Dev Servers. If you've already started one here, the Dev servers dialog notices and offers Stop it and start here.

In other terminals

Outside a project terminal, php is whatever your system PATH provides. To make Rezure's active PHP the default everywhere, turn on Use Rezure's PHP everywhere. That always points at the global version; project pins only apply in the project terminal and to the site itself. Node.js has no system-wide option; it's only on PATH in project terminals.

Related

• PHP Per Project: pinning PHP
• Node.js: installing and pinning Node
• AI Coding Agents: how Rezure tells coding tools about this setup