Can't enter my password when trying to create a Laravel project with Sail on Windows

Question

I want to create a new Laravel 8 project and I followed the documentation with docker and Sail on Windows: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x#getting-started-on-windows

After I installed everything, I tried executing the command to create the project:

curl -s https://laravel.build/example-app | bash

It asked me for my password. I entered it and pressed enter, but nothing happened. When I press CTRL+C, I can see that it tried to execute my password as a command.

Milkfish

have you tried doing it the other way around? using sudo su first, entering your password, and then using the curl command? – Brainy

That seems to work, thanks! – Milkfish

Now I get an error though. "chown: cannot access '.': No such file or directory" – Milkfish

Oh well, thats weird af, as . is the current directory... – Brainy

I know. It also didn't create the project – Milkfish

you did everything using root/sudo , right? And what directory are you in? – Brainy

Yes. I just realized, there are other errors as well... "Cannot create project directory at "/opt/example-app", it exists as a file." and "bash: line 16: cd: example-app: No such file or directory" – Milkfish

I think you are in a directory with restricted rights, go to your home and create a directory called projects, then go into that folder and repeat the command – Brainy

Yep, that worked! I was just in D:\projects, but putting it in C:\projects worked. Thanks a lot! – Milkfish

I posted it as the answer :) – Brainy

Answer 1

First of all you should create a folder called projects inside your home directory, then, go into that folder and execute sudo curl -s https://laravel.build/example-app | bash

You could also do sudo su and then curl -s https://laravel.build/example-app | bash

Brainy

Answer 2

run it in WSL command line, not in windows command prompt.

it must work

Streamway

Answer 3

Install Windows Terminal. Open it with your Linux distribution. And try again.

Ostracon

Answer 4

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You have to run this command with sudo privileges on WSL:

• Try it with WSL directly in VSCode

or

• On with Searching it

sudo curl -s https://laravel.build/TaskFlow | bash

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