Why composer install timeouts after 300 seconds?

Question

I have small project made in symfony2 when I try to build it on my server it\'s always fails when unzipping symfony. Build was OK and suddenly composer won\'t unzip symfony

Answer 1

Composer itself impose a limit on how long it would allow for the remote git operation. A look at the Composer documentation confirms that the environment variable COMPOSER_PROCESS_TIMEOUT governs this. The variable is set to a default value of 300 (seconds) which is apparently not enough for a large clone operation using a slow internet connection.

Raise this value using:

COMPOSER_PROCESS_TIMEOUT=2000 composer install