Using symfony with a proxy

Question

I'm tying to install symfony on my computer at work, with standalone uWamp as local server.

Since the php command from the doc (php -r "file_put_contents('symfony', file_get_contents('https://symfony.com/installer'));") didn't work for me ("failed to open a stream"), I had to manually get the installer at https://symfony.com/installer to even be able to use the symfony php command.

But even then, when I run php symfony new my_project, I get this curl error which I dont know how to outpass :

[GuzzleHttp\Exception\ConnectException] cURL error 7: Failed to connect to get.symfony.com port 443: Timed out

[GuzzleHttp\Ring\Exception\ConnectException] cURL error 7: Failed to connect to get.symfony.com port 443: Timed out

From what I read on SO, I think my problem is that there is a proxy that forbid my connexion.

Here is the list of main SO topics on the subject :

• TimeOut connection to symfony.com via http proxy : no answer and I don't have any control over the proxy (I dont even have any access to its parameters). I tried downloading composer and have the very same problem.
• How to handle Fatal error: cURL error 7: Failed to connect to xxxx port 443 : this is try/catch, and I am definitively not going to rewrite symfony
• How to resolve cURL Error (7): couldn't connect to host? : they say I should change my proxy port, but how can I do it before symfony execution ?

Is there any way I can use symfony on this computer ? Else, is there a standalone vanilla version of symfony I could use without it to download anything ?

Answer 1

I do not know what the problem is. But the solution was ping get.symfony.com from the computer where it works. And the address in /ect/hosts