did you perform this step: composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name --prefer-dist from http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/quick#installation?

I tried with the command: "php-cli composer create-project laravel/laravel test --prefer-dist"

at the beginning it works until some point where I get an error:

Generating autoload files Status: 500 Internal Server Error Cache-Control: no-cache

then it begin to write something that looks like the content of an HTML file

I know I probably missed something in the install but i cannot find what is the problem... Thank you so much for any kind of advice !

It seems to be an error of permission but i don't understand why... The project is not even created so there is no project folder when i invoke the command "php-cli composer create-project laravel/laravel test --prefer-dist"

How is it possible to have a permission problem in such a case ? Is there any way to solve this issue ?

Thank you very much for the help, I am really beginning to become mad at this installation thing... it worked so well in my Homestead local environment...T_T

I think I found the problem

It doesn't come from me, I think the server laravel.phar is down or something like that

When I go to the page http://laravel.com/laravel.phar

I get the same HTML code than when i try to run "php-cli composer create-project laravel/laravel test --prefer-dist"