Unable to install Laravel via Composer

Question

I'm getting an error while trying to install Laravel using Composer. I also had the same problem trying to install composer itself, was getting "Connection Timed-out", so I had to download composer.phar manually. I'm using Fedora 23. Here's my input:

composer create-project laravel/laravel project

and the error i'm getting:

    [Composer\Downloader\TransportException]                                                                             
  The "https://packagist.org/packages.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: Connection timed out

My internet is working fine and I'm not using proxy. What could be the issue? Thanks.

Still no luck, still timing out: `--2017-01-05 17:56:30-- https://packagist.org/packages.json Connecting to 172.16.1.55:8080... failed: Connection timed out. Retrying.` — Mathenge, Jan 05 '17 at 15:02
We don't have a firewall @shalvah Plus i'm still able to download stuff. — Mathenge, Jan 05 '17 at 15:04
@Mathenge take a look at this GitHub issue. Hope it helps. https://github.com/composer/composer/issues/4388 — shalvah, Jan 05 '17 at 15:07

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 05 '17 at 15:09

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Try locating the cacert.pem file(console: locate cacert.pem) and add this to your php.ini

openssl.cafile= the cacert.pem path

so for example the path is /usr/local/share/perl5/Mozilla/CA/cacert.pem then add the following line to your php.ini

openssl.cafile=/usr/local/share/perl5/Mozilla/CA/cacert.pem;

answered Jan 05 '17 at 15:09

Jesse de gans

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Thank you very much for the suggestion @Jesse de gans. It was my mistake. – Mathenge Jan 06 '17 at 04:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 04:58

I'm extremely sorry for wasting your time guys. I realized I'm the one who was wrong. A few days ago I was working somewhere and I was required to change my proxy settings. Now my browser was still working fine when I got back but any download from the terminal was timing out. Just changed proxy to "None" and everything is working fine. Thank you very much for your suggestions. I appreciate.

Unable to install Laravel via Composer

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