Laravel 4 bootstrap error

Question

This is the error I get after everything is installed:

These are the steps I did to install.

1. Downloaded XAMPP

2. Opened command terminal from root user:

    git clone -b develop git://github.com/laravel/laravel.git L4_site
   

3. Change directory cd L4_site

4. Create a composer.json file in the root or install by terminal:

   curl -S getcomposer.org/installer|php -d detect_unicode=off
   

   *See chris-schmitz.com/getting-started-with-laravel-4

5. In L4_site directory in terminal type: php composer.phar install

   This is the error I got after installing composer:
   Strikers-MacBook-Pro:L4_site striker$ php composer.phar install
   Loading composer repositories with package information
   Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
   Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.
   

6. Then point server, type:

   php -S localhost:8888 -t public/
   

After I did all this I copied the directory to my hosted server (hostgator) and get the below error:

>Warning: require(/home/flemzy/public_html/l/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php)     [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/flemzy/public_html/l/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

>Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/flemzy/public_html/l/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/opt/php53/lib/php') in /home/flemzy/public_html/l/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

I am so close to getting a working laravel 4 beginning app. The error lies somewhere in the dependencies not being installed properly. I think I need a correct composer.json file in order to get ride of these errors.

Thank you everyone for your help.

Answer 1

There is an error in step 4), you should do:

 curl -S getcomposer.org/installer | php

and then

 php composer.phar install

See https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#locally for detailed instructions to install Composer