Composer uses the wrong PHP version

Symptoms

Normally when running the php command, the php-cli wrapper picks up the PHP version that is configured in the working directory throught the .htaccess file. When running composer, the system default is used instead:

# grep AddHandler .htaccess
 AddHandler application/x-httpd-ea-php74 .php .php7 .phtml
# composer diagnose
...
PHP version: 7.0.33

Description 

This issue is caused by composer using /opt/cpanel/composer/bin as its working directory. An improvement case is currently open to see if this can be improved. The case ID is CPANEL-23228.

Workaround

Either use SCL or full path to the binaries involved.

scl enable ea-php74 'composer diagnose'

or

/opt/cpanel/ea-php71/root/usr/bin/php /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer diagnose

or

ea-php74 /opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer diagnose

Further troubleshooting for composer can be found here:

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