Symfony2 Composer Install
composer-php, debian, symfony
Solution
Apache is not related - PHP is called via command line.
Most likely is the permission in the cache folder: did you check if the user that runs the composer update can actually write the cache folder?
Try to manually run `rm -Rf app/cache/dev` (for production environment replace dev with prod) and see if you get any permission error.
Also you will get this error if the `default.timezone` setting is not configured in php when running in CLI. To verify just run
`php --info | grep timezone`
and check that the setting `date.timezone` is correctly configured.
On the security side, setting 777 to the folder is not the optimal solution - if you have ACL enabled you could use that to correctly set up the permission for the cache and logs folder. Read more at the Symfony2 official installation page
Problem
I am trying to install Symfony 2.1.3 (latest). I am running composer and installs everything okay. The only error that I get is: ``` Script Sensio\Bundle\DistributionBundle\Composer\ScriptHandler::clearCache handling the post-install-cmd event terminated with an exception [RuntimeException] An error occurred when executing the "'cache:clear --no-warmup'" command. ``` It's being installed under www folder. I am running nginx and followed the composer approach. I read on internet that apache should be run manually not as a service, however I am using nginx instead. Does apache still have any bearing on it? I'm using debian squeeze. Edit: As per AdrienBrault's suggestion the error was because the timezone was not set in the php.ini. Only with --verbose I could see the warning. Thanks guys.