Why “no such file or directory … autoload.php” when accessing Laravel app?

Question

I am a newbie to Laravel, have been trying to install Laravel, wasted three hours unfortunately didn\'t work. When I access through public directory, I get these errors:

Answer 1

To get around this problem, doing a composer self-update would do the trick. Moreover, as long as the composer command itself works in your command-line/bash (which means you have it in your PATH) you don't necessarily need to go the actual path where composer.phar resides in (i.e. c:/ProgramData/Composer/bin or whatsoever).