GoDaddy shared hosting has composer installed (version 1.7.2). My Mediawiki installation was done via cPanel installatron. The mediawiki installation folder is named "wiki". In the folder wiki/vendor resides the composer folder, the composer.json file, and the composer.lock file.
I created the composer.local.json file in the wiki folder as instructed. However whenever I run composer update --no-dev "mediawiki/bootstrap" in the wiki folder, I receive and error stating that "Composer could not find a composer.json file in path/wiki To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the --link to site-- "Getting Started" section"
I am not familiar with composer so any help would be greatly appreciated.