SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed using xampp on mac

Question

hope everyone doing well. I'm getting an error of SSL while creating new project using laravel. Here's my error:

[Composer\Downloader\TransportException]                                     
  The "http://packagist.org/p/laravel/laravel$745fa4e5f0a1485878f0b4c5be5cf26  
  a9e5d68243751f3c34acbd8bf3766065d.json" file could not be downloaded: SSL o  
  peration failed with code 1. OpenSSL Error messages:                         
  error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify   
  failed                                                                       
  Failed to enable crypto                                                      
  failed to open stream: operation failed  

For that problem, i'm trying multiple solutions but result still zero. I want to share one method which is used for SSL issue. I got that below method some website and where's the guy guide to add that below code in php.ini file.

[curl]
; A default value for the CURLOPT_CAINFO option. This is required to be an
; absolute path.
curl.cainfo ="/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/cacert.pem"

[openssl]
; The location of a Certificate Authority (CA) file on the local filesystem
; to use when verifying the identity of SSL/TLS peers. Most users should
; not specify a value for this directive as PHP will attempt to use the
; OS-managed cert stores in its absence. If specified, this value may still
; be overridden on a per-stream basis via the "cafile" SSL stream context
; option.
openssl.cafile="/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/cacert.pem"

But this method also not working. Can anyone please help me to how can i resolve that issue. Thanks

Answer 1

Run that command and solve your problem, i fixed it myself

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer 

I'm on MacOs sierra also with PHP 5.6.24