[FIXED] Installing composer using vagrant, hhvm, and Ubuntu 14.04

Issue

At the end of my vagrant provisioning script I attempt to install composer using the following :

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

However when this is executed I get the following errors :

SlowTimer [5612ms] at curl: https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar
Download failed: Failed to open https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar (Resolving timed out after 5613 milliseconds)
The download failed repeatedly, aborting.

If I have php installed rather than hhvm and run the same commands on my vagrant vm the install is successful which indicates an incompatibility in hhvm. However I also have a Linode running Ubuntu 14.04 and hhvm (no php) and can install composer using these commands without any problems.

Given I can install composer using a similar environment on my Linode why does it fail on my vagrant vm and how do I rectify this?

Solution

As a work around until this gets fixed in vagrant, hhvm or where ever the root cause exisits you can download the composer installer using wget:

sudo wget https://getcomposer.org/installer

Then install composer using hhvm with some options to extend the timeouts as recommended here.

hhvm -v ResourceLimit.SocketDefaultTimeout=30 -v Http.SlowQueryThreshold=30000 installer

Then install composer globally as usual and clean up :

sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
sudo rm installer

Answered By - cubiclewar