Windows composer install issue

Question

I'm trying to install composer via the composer-setup.exe from http://getcomposer.org/download/ and I'm getting the following error:

Connection Error [ERR_CONNECTION]: Unable to connect to getcomposer.org

Request to https://getcomposer.org/installer failed with errors: SSL: The operation completed successfully. . Send of 25 bytes failed with errno=10054 An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. . Send of 23 bytes failed with errno=10054 An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. . Send of 2 bytes failed with errno=10054 An existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host. . Failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

I tried disabling my antivirus/firewall but I keep on getting the same error. I searched google but couldn't resolve this. Any help here? Thanks.

Answer 1

Is SSL enabled in the correct php.ini?

If the installation approach via the windows executable fails, you might switch to just downloading the composer.phar to your PHP dir, eg C:\\php\\composer.phar .

Then add composer.bat file inside the C:\\php folder which forwards commands to the PHAR file:

@ECHO OFF
php "%~dp0composer.phar" %*

Also add the path to your php directory (eg C:\\php ) to the Path in your System variables. This result in a global installaton of composer. You can call composer on any project path.