Trying to set up Laravel 4 gives "failed to open stream: No such file or directory"

Question

Trying to set up Laravel 4 on a Mac. I've installed Composer but when I go to the public folder via XAMPP I get this:

Warning: require(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/laravel-master/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/laravel-master/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/laravel-master/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php:/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/pear') in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/laravel-master/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

Answer 1

Okay,

I had the same problem and found a way to fix it.

Just read this: http://laravel.com/docs/installation and follow it.

Install composer first, add laravel to the root and install the composer.json with cmd. It worked for me.

Answer 2

You need to provide the following command from your terminal

composer install

it might get stuck due to permission issues, so try with

sudo composer install

I guess this should solve your problem.

Answer 3

in the command prompt try this

D:\xampp\htdocs\laravel>composer update