Composer: Failed to initialize global composer: Composer could not find the config file: /Users/{username}/.composer/composer.json

[BrandynL]

Im trying to run the following command in a directory (we'll use /var/www/example for example)
composer create-project symfony/website-skeleton my_project_name
This is the setup for a php symfony application, but I don't think that is important.

The result is the following when i add the flag -vvv:

Failed to initialize global composer: Composer could not find the config file: /Users/{username}/.composer/composer.json
To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in the https://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section
Checked CA file /usr/local/etc/[email protected]/cert.pem: valid
Creating a "symfony/website-skeleton" project at "./example"
Downloading https://repo.packagist.org/packages.json
Writing /Users/{username}/.composer/cache/repo/https---repo.packagist.org/packages.json into cache
Reading /Users/{username}/.composer/cache/repo/https---repo.packagist.org/p-provider-2013.json from cache
Reading /Users/{username}/.composer/cache/repo/https---repo.packagist.org/p-provider-2014.json from cache
Reading /Users/{username}/.composer/cache/repo/https---repo.packagist.org/p-provider-2015.json from cache
Downloading http://repo.packagist.org/p/provider-2016%24053550c94f0a6064084aa6b1ec16e31921d1296f504fe33906bd205a4665429a.json

Eventually, my packages are downloaded but note the Failed to initialize global composer... is not trying to look in the directory i'm currently in: /var/www/example, but rather my home folder?

I also took note of: Checked CA file /usr/local/etc/[email protected]/cert.pem: valid
Im using a version of PHP installed with homebrew, but im unsure if this is related to #8911 ?

When I use PHP 7.3.11 bundled with MacOS 10.15.5, the result is the same with the following variation: Checked CA file /private/etc/ssl/cert.pem: valid

Anyone else having this issue?

I should add to this: composer is in fact working on my system, but i'm curious about this debug information and if there is anything to be concerned with and any possible resolutions

[Seldaek]

It means the global composer failed to initialize, which means globally installed plugins and such do not initialize. It's not a problem really. The way it fails I think it just means you have nothing set up in the global dir so it's simply stating it didn't load.