Install Laravel to an existing folder

Are you trying to override an existing application, otherwise you probably need a new name.

I have created an empty github repository then cloned it, navigated inside the directory and used the command laravel new this always created all the required files within current directory with no issues no name required.

Surely they would not remove this?

Looks like they accidentally borked that behaviour whenever they changed the installer recently.

That unfortunate thanks for the response @tykus

Yeah this is super unfortunate. I'm looking around for additional solutions, but it would be nice to do something like:

laravel new -c {project name}

-c or a similar flag for current directory.

This is still a massive problem to date.

Create projects using composer instead of laravel

And there is one more thing, your directory should be blank

composer create-project laravel/laravel .

You can always create the Laravel project with Composer

composer create-project laravel/laravel my-laravel-project

Then clone your new repository into another folder

git clone https://github.com/your-username/your-repo

And finally copy the .git folder to your Laravel project

mv your-repo/.git/ my-laravel-project

From there you can add the files an commit normally from your Laravel project folder.

cd my-laravel-project
git add .
git commit -m "Initial Laravel files"
git push

I know this is old but you can create laravel in another folder and just copy everything in your current one.