Laravel 4.1 installation with composer in xampp

Question

I wanted to try out the Laravel 4.1 but unfortunately got stuck at the very beginning. When i try to install it using composer as mentioned in the Laravel 4.1 documentation, i get the following error while running "composer create-project laravel/laravel laravelProject --prefer-dist":

[Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "http://packagist.org/p/illuminate/filesystem$a5912ddb14272c0efa16e821a25bb68e39d3bac736aee7de62cb5641fd7133e3.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

Answer 1

Four simple steps to install laravel on windows machine:

1. After installing xampp, just download composer from https://getcomposer.org/download/ and install it.
2. goto path C:/xampp/htdocs and create a folder as laravel, redirect to laravel using cmd prompt as cd c:\xampp\htdocs\laravel.
3. then simply type this command to create a first project composer create-project laravel/laravel first-project --prefer-dist Replace first-project with your project name (it takes a few minutes to install)
4. then redirect to localhost/laravel/first-project/public/ and now you can see the Laravel logo along with a quick message saying “You have arrived.” ( always use a public folder to access project )

Answer 2

Few steps to install for Windows Xampp,

1. Download Composer here http://getcomposer.org/
2. Download master copy here https://github.com/laravel/laravel/archive/master.zip
3. Paste the master in xampp/htdocs/your-project-name/[paste the master copy of laravel here]
4. Go to Command prompt : Start Menu -> Run -> Type cmd or command or Window Key + R and type cmd or command.
5. Go the path xampp/htdocs/your-project-name/ in command prompt and type composer install.
6. It will automatically download the necessary files.

Hope this will help.