官网和国内中文网站也介绍了很多安装方式，

官网：http://laravel.com/

中文网站：http://www.golaravel.com/，http://laravel-china.org/

中文网站提供了一键安装包，即已经为laravel编译了依赖包等，不希望折腾的可直接去下载，不用往下看了，地址：http://www.golaravel.com/download/

1，到github下载laraveld安装包zip，访问:https://github.com/laravel/laravel，下载个版本4.2.11，了解下低版本

2，解压laravel ，进入目录修改composer.json，依赖包的源，更改为国内的源，添加以下内容

“repositories”: [ {“type”: “composer”, “url”: “http://packagist.phpcomposer.com”}, {“packagist”: false} ]

3，在cmd窗口进入到laravel的解压根目录下，运行composer install 下载laravel的依赖包，显示如下

D:\wamp\www\laravel-4.2.11>composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
– Installing symfony/translation (v2.5.12)
Downloading: 100%

– Installing symfony/security-core (v2.5.12)
Downloading: 100%

··············································

– Installing laravel/framework (v4.2.17)
Downloading: 100%

symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/config ()
symfony/translation suggests installing symfony/yaml ()

···········
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symfony/routing suggests installing doctrine/annotations (For using the annotati
on loader)
symfony/event-dispatcher suggests installing symfony/dependency-injection ()

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d11wtq/boris suggests installing ext-readline (*)
d11wtq/boris suggests installing ext-pcntl (*)
d11wtq/boris suggests installing ext-posix (*)
laravel/framework suggests installing doctrine/dbal (Allow renaming columns and
dropping SQLite columns.)
Writing lock file
Generating autoload files
> php artisan clear-compiled
> php artisan optimize
Generating optimized class loader
Compiling common classes
Compiling views

D:\wamp\www\laravel-4.2.11>

4，最后将laravel目录拷贝到wamp的访问根目录www下面，即可在浏览器打开，显示界面

error
1, problem : Could not find package laravel/laravel with stability stable
solution :　composer create-project laravel/laravel appname –prefer-dist 5.1

2, problem : No supported encrypter found. The cipher and / or key length are invalid
solution :
(1) make sure that there is .env in laravel root floder , and the parameter APP_KEY is included;
(2) run the commond : php artisan key:generate