On the SitePoint PHP blog editor Bruno Skvorc has posted a tutorial showing you how to set up the Packagist alternative, Satis, in a local network configuration instead of requiring users to still access the external web.

While preparing my technical materials for WebSummerCamp, I realized my workshop would rely on a fairly stable internet connection, as we’d have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of packages to install. Rather than rely on the gods of live demos, or pre-installing everything and ruining the experience, I picked another route.

In this post, I’ll show you how to set up a local Satis instance and have it host the packages over the network it’s currently on, so that everyone who’s also connected to it can put the address into composer.json as a custom repository source, and retrieve all packages from your machine locally – no internet connection required!

He then shows you how to set up the system on a Homestead Improved VM locally, cloning Satis inside of it. He includes an example of the configuration of his required packages and how to build the local repository using this setup. Then, using the built-in PHP web server, he shows the result of the setup and how to access it from other machines. Finally, a few updates are required to the user's composer.json to use the local versions instead of the normal remote connection for the package downloads.