PHP Composer behind http proxy

Question

I use composer on a network where the only way to access the internet is using HTTP or socks proxy. I have http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables. When compose tri

Answer 1

You can use the standard HTTP_PROXY environment var. Simply set it to the URL of your proxy. Many operating systems already set this variable for you.

Just export the variable, then you don't have to type it all the time.

export HTTP_PROXY="http://johndoeproxy.cu:8080"

Then you can do composer update normally.