Extension does not run via SSH session

I am connecting to a remote host running CentOS 7, with PHP installed. I connect using Microsoft’s remote SSH plugin and install the PHP CS fixer plugin locally using the extension manager. I have it set in the settings to run on save, but it can also be run manually. I installed the PHAR for PHP CS Fixer itself in my home directory and set that as the absolute path for the executable. When I save a file or when I right click and do Format Document, nothing happens. I don’t get any errors though there are these two log messages in the Remote Extension Host log:

[2019-07-16 13:49:43.239] [exthost] [error] [junstyle.php-cs-fixer] provider FAILED
[2019-07-16 13:49:43.239] [exthost] [error] undefined

I can’t tell where it’s failing.

[Rayraz]

Interestingly, I’m not getting the error I got yesterday.

Yesterday, I tried setting the executable path to: ‘php-cs-fixer’. When running the command to ‘fix this file’, vscode-php-cs-fixer complained that php-cs-fixer couldn’t be found and as such it reverted back to the version included with the extension.

Today, I’m unable to reproduce that error and the excutable path does not get reverted back to the version included with the extension.

The only thing that has changed in the mean time was turning my workstation off yesterday night and on again this morning.

I could tell from the console output that php-cs-fixer was running with --rules=@PSR2, so I deliberately created something that didn’t comply with PSR2 and it did get fixed.

[aaronellington]

I’ve stopped using the extension because of problem with remote-ssh dev.

My current solution in my settings.json with the emeraldwalk.runonsave extension:

{
    "emeraldwalk.runonsave": {
        "commands": [
            {
                "match": "\\.php$",
                "cmd": "/home/aaron/php-project/bin/php-cs-fixer fix ${file}"
            }
        ]
    }
}

It’s not perfect but it works 95% of the time.