How to install Laravel via Laravel Installer on Windows?

Question

I’m trying to install the Laravel Framework on Windows with the Laravel Installer method.

In the documentation I found the following:

First, download the Laravel installer using Composer. Make sure to place the “~/.composer/vendor/bin” directory in your PATH so the laravel executable is found when you run the laravel command in your terminal.

Now this PATH does not look familiar to me. Could you tell me the working path for Windows?

BTW: I’m using WAMP. Composer is installed and updated.

Answer 1

The PATH for Windows:

I’ve found the location where composer stores the Vendor files.

So instead of ~/.composer/vendor/bin, on Windows the following path should be used:

C:\Users\<COMPUTER NAME>\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin

How to install the Laravel Installer:

I assume you have php and composer in your PATH already.

First of all install the Laravel Installer. Open a command prompt and enter:

composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

Then update the PATH environment variable via e.g. command prompt with admin privileges:

setx /M path "%path%;%appdata%\Composer\vendor\bin"

%appdata% is added, so you don’t have to worry about adding your computer name.

How to create a fresh Laravel Installation:

Now you should be able to run laravel commands in the command prompt.

To create a fresh laravel installation, open a command prompt in the directory of choice and enter:

laravel new name_of_directory

If everything went right, you should see the following message:

Crafting application...
Application ready! Build something amazing.