Nowadays, with respect to the nonlinear birefringent optical fibers, efforts have been put into investigating the coupled nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) systems. In this paper, symbolic computation on a variable-coefficient coherently-coupled NLS system with the alternate signs of nonlinearities is performed. Under a variable-coefficient constraint , the system is shown to be integrable in the Lax sense with a Lax pair constructed, where t is the normalized time, is the strength of the four wave mixing terms, and is the strength of the anti-trapping parabolic potential. With an auxiliary function, bilinear forms, vector one- and two-soliton solutions are obtained. Figures are displayed to help us study the vector solitons: When is a constant, vector soliton propagates stably with the amplitude and velocity unvarying (vector soliton’s amplitude changes with the change of that constant, while its velocity can not be affected by that constant); When is a t-varying function, i.e. , amplitude and velocity of the vector soliton both vary with t increasing, while affects the vector soliton’s amplitude and velocity. With the different or , interactions between the amplitude- and velocity-unvarying vector two solitons and those between the amplitude- and velocity-varying vector two solitons are displayed, respectively. By virtue of the system and its complex-conjugate system, conservation laws for the vector solitons, including the total energy and momentum, are constructed.