Forum Can't get the "laravel" command to run in the CMD

posted 10 years ago

Hello,

I installed composer and then I tried installing the laravel command line functions as it was described in their website, namely I ran this command:


composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

Taken from directly from the official website - http://laravel.com/docs/4.2#install-laravel

But when I run:

laravel new blog

I get an error:


C:\xampp\htdocs>laravel new blog
'laravel' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

Please help! I really want to use the "laravel" command lines from the CMD.

I am on Windows 8.1.

I searched a lot in Google for help but with no luck :( Many thanks!

Last updated 3 years ago.

stefany93

replied 10 years ago

Solution

Fixed the problem. It turned out that the PATH was NOT included, I thought it was, but that path turned out to be the one of composer for its CMD commands, not the Laravel ones.

So I ran

composer global require "laravel/installer=~1.1"

and then the message appeared

" Changing directory to C:\Users\Stefany\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin "

So I went to that directory and I saw that laravel.bat file WAS THERE, so I copied the path and pasted in in the system variavles windows, then ran the Laravel command: