<p>That's not an error, but a Composer warning, saying that it can't create its cache folder at <code>/home/cmnd/.composer/cache/repo/https---repo.packagist.org/</code> (probably because of a permissions issue.</p>
<p>You can ignore it, but Composer will just run slower.</p>

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<p>Cannot create cache directory /home/cmnd/.composer/cache/repo/https---repo.packagist.org/, or directory is not writable. Proceeding without cache</p>

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I am getting this message when creating a new project
# I am getting this message when creating a new project

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-07-06)

Cannot create cache directory /home/cmnd/.composer/cache/repo/https---repo.packagist.org/, or directory is not writable. Proceeding without cache

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2020-07-07. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

That's not an error, but a Composer warning, saying that it can't create its cache folder at `/home/cmnd/.composer/cache/repo/https---repo.packagist.org/` (probably because of a permissions issue.

You can ignore it, but Composer will just run slower.


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