Latest Composer version not pulling Laravel

Question

The Latest version of Composer is not pulling Laravel, I thought it could be because of Composer added new secure_http feature for downloading from Packagist and Laravel Pac

Answer 1

I suggest to enable openssl using:

composer config -g -- disable-tls false

And then you also need to active it in php.in

Open php.ini and search for php_openssl and you end up like this extension=php_openssl.dll

The php_openssl.dll file is in ext directory of your php so if you changed php directory and have an error like

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 
'C:\php\ext\php_openssl.dll' - The specified module could not be found. 
in Unknown on line 0

You need to set extension=php_openssl.dll to extension="your php direcroty"\ext\php_openssl.dll

Answer 2

When running (downgrade composer by running)

composer config -g secure-http false

i still got an exeption

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Composer\Package\RootPackage::getConfig() ...

I got a success finaly using additional --no-plugins

composer config -g secure-http false --no-plugins
composer self-update --no-plugins

Hope this helps anyone :)

Answer 3

I had the same problem. Found the solution here:Reddit Discussion of the issue

Basically, you have two options:

• Revert to previous version, by running

  self-update --rollback

• Or, downgrade composer by running

  composer config -g secure-http false

Answer 4

at last this one saved me ,

sudo composer self-update

sudo composer clear-cache

sudo composer config -g secure-http false

sudo composer update --no-scripts

finally done !