title: Creating a Laravel project
body: <p>I have followed a tutorial on Tuts plus called "Getting started with laravel 4". My <code>cygwin</code> and <code>composer</code> works fine. When i try installing laravel using the following command:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i get the following message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Installing laravel/laravel (v4.2.0)
  Downloading: 100%
  
  Created project in laravel
  
  [InvalidArgumentException]
  Composer could not find the config file: C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin
  To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in  
  the http://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have also tried :
  <code>composer create-project laravel/laravel project-name  --prefer-dist</code>. but same error .</p>
  
  <p>I have tried looking at the Getting Started section but I am not sure what this file should contain in a laravel project?</p>