Install Composer & JWT on VPS

Laravel is already up and running on my VPS and I can provide full SSH access right away. What I’m missing is a clean Composer setup plus the tymon/jwt-auth package fully configured for token-based authentication.

Here’s exactly what I need you to do:

• Install the latest stable Composer globally so that the `composer` command is available to all users.
• Pull in `tymon/jwt-auth` through Composer, publish its config, run `jwt:secret`, and wire it into my existing Laravel guards without breaking anything already in place.
• Verify the flow with a quick test route or Postman collection to prove that login returns a valid JWT and protected routes respect it.

Everything will be done over SSH (credentials supplied). I’m not tied to any particular Linux flavour, so as long as you’re comfortable with typical Ubuntu/CentOS/Debian setups you’ll be fine.

Acceptance is simple: Composer works from the command line, `jwt:secret` is generated, and an authenticated request returns 200 while an unauthenticated one is blocked. If this sounds straightforward to you, let’s get it wrapped up today.