# Can I install Bedrock without messing with Composer?

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/can-i-install-bedrock-without-messing-with-composer/7370
**Category:** bedrock
**Created:** 2016-08-09T01:14:07Z
**Posts:** 2

## Post 1 by @Jeremy — 2016-08-09T01:14:07Z

I read about the advantages of Bedrock here:

> **[Bedrock vs Regular WordPress Install | Roots](https://roots.io/bedrock-vs-regular-wordpress-install/)**
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> Bedrock gives you a better structure for your WordPress installation. Use Composer for dependency management along with modern PHP coding standards.

It looks really great. And I decided to try it. But when I went to the install pages, I was immediately overwhelmed by how complicated it seems! The first requirement after PHP is “Composer.” I went to the install page for Composer:  
[https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-linux-unix-osx](https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-linux-unix-osx)

And NONE of that stuff makes any sense to me.

Isn’t there a way I can just FTP Bedrock onto my server, unzip, and install? Wouldn’t that be a heckuvalot simpler (and more straight forward) than all this over-complicated hoop jumping?

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## Post 2 by @swalkinshaw — 2016-08-09T01:24:44Z

You could only FTP Bedrock _after_ getting Composer working and running `composer install` as Bedrock doesn’t contain needed files (like WordPress itself) by default.