404 error when using Composer to download Zend Framework 2

Question

I am working my way through the Zend Framework 2 tutorial and got stuck on page 2

I issued the following command

php composer.phar create-project \
--repository-url="http://packages.zendframework.com" \
zendframework/skeleton-application /home/user/zf2-tutorial

and provided my GitHub credentials. After a few seconds I got the following error:

Downloading: connection...

[Composer\Downloader\TransportException]
The "https://api.github.com/repos/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication/zipball/zf/release-2.1.0" file could not be downloaded (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found)

Does anyone know what the correct URL is and how do I force composer to use it?

Answer 1

I'm not an expert(first time ZF2 install for me, but I think it's a bug on packages.zendframework.com), but I've experienced the same problem. I made it work with the following commands(I have git installed and the OS I'm using is Debian 6).

git clone git://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication.git --recursive
$ curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
cd ZendSkeletonApplication/
php composer.phar self-update
php composer.phar install

Please see: http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#locally https://github.com/zendframework/ZendSkeletonApplication#using-composer-recommended