𝗙𝗜𝗫 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗪𝗣 𝗖𝗟𝗜 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥

𝗙𝗜𝗫 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗪𝗣-𝗖𝗟𝗜 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥

You upload wp-cli.phar to your server. You set permissions to 755. You run the command. It says command not found. You check the path. It says binary file execution failed.

The cause is your browser file manager. These tools see files without extensions as text. They change bytes during the upload. This corrupts the binary. PHP sees a broken signature. The file fails.

Stop using browser uploads for binaries. Use SSH. Download the file directly on your server with curl. This keeps the file safe.

Follow these steps:

• SSH into your server.
• Create a bin folder.
• Use curl to pull the PHAR file.
• Rename it to wp.
• Set permissions to 755.

Test it with wp --info. Success means the file is healthy.

Source: https://dev.to/susumun/command-not-found-and-whats-really-blocking-wp-cli-55o6