Cannot establish SSL connection with Composer with PHP 5.6.3

Question

After cloning a repository on Ubuntu 14.04 with PHP 5.6.3 I am unable to run php composer.phar selfupdate neither php composer.phar update. I get t

Answer 1

One cause of this might be that certs are missing or not found by PHP.

Is the ca-certificates package installed?

If not: apt-get install ca-certificates or simply download the certificate bundle from here:

• http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
• https://github.com/bagder/ca-bundle/blob/master/ca-bundle.crt

Then check and edit your php.ini, so that these certs are used for the SSL connection made by PHP.

curl.cainfo=/path/to/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt
openssl.cafile=/path/to/ssl/certs/ca-bundle.crt