I\'m having trouble getting a test instance of Laravel 5.0 up and running so I can assist with this transition.
1) Creating a new app from https://github.com/laravel
Run this command from where you want to store your project
composer create-project laravel/laravel
Remember, it will download the latest version of laravel application from git.
if you are using linux then give permission to bootstrap/cache and storage by running the command chmod 777 -R from root of your laravel project