Laravel 4 Installation Error (via composer) always Timeout

Question

I tried installing laravel.

I installed xampp then the composer.

I followed the documentation but when i'm installing laravel, i always get this:

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae238/Mochi_Ongpin/help_zpsb8870025.png

Can someone please help me? I already tried several times but failed.

Answer 1

Your Laravel is already installed, it timed out in the very last thing it does, which is create the compiled classes files bootstrap/compiled.php. If this file is present, delete it (it's not really necessary) and try to use your Laravel installtion.

Why is it timing out? Not sure, but you can, later, try to execute the command manually:

php artisan optimize

EDIT:

You successfully installed a Laravel application, but there is at least one other variable in this process: a web server. Without it you cannot see that success message.

Being on Windows you probably will have to install Apache 2 or WAMP, then create a Virtual Host for your Laravel application and hit: http://localhost/ to see that message.

You can also try to use Laravel's internal PHP server:

php artisan serve

And in your browser go to

http://localhost:8000