Composer hanging while updating dependencies

Question

I tried updating a Laravel project I\'m working on today using composer update

But it hung on Updating dependencies (including require-dev)

Answer 1

I solved it by editing php.ini file in order to set de cacert required for ssl verification:

1. Download the file http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem

2. Edit php.ini to set the pat:

   [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=C:\web\certs\cacert.pem
   curl.cainfo=C:\web\certs\cacert.pem
   

3. Try again