Laravel Sail installs in wrong directory on mac

I recently moved from Windows to a Macbook, so I'm not too familiar with the operating system yet. Which is probably what is going wrong here.

When setting up the laptop, I installed Docker and tried to start a Laravel project using Laravel sail. To get set up, I used the documentation on the Laravel website.

I ran the following command:

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

And here I run into errors. The output I get on the terminal is:

latest: Pulling from laravelsail/php83-composer
2c6d21737d83: Pull complete 
92f459fbdcda: Pull complete 
f47c20ea5e2a: Pull complete 
1dc98159c6c0: Pull complete 
c58f9b317b86: Pull complete 
a90e6b079301: Pull complete 
985736889148: Pull complete 
5ebc830e3877: Pull complete 
d5827b07cd12: Pull complete 
655f972d1b33: Pull complete 
dff7782a59e2: Pull complete 
5ae741e62c20: Pull complete 
4f4fb700ef54: Pull complete 
59844cc6eb6d: Pull complete 
5013e0392271: Pull complete 
Digest: sha256:bf8d87c943cacab0e04ead85e8c1db440e345fd1456714f736786ef4d18ba7b7
Status: Downloaded newer image for laravelsail/php83-composer:latest
   WARN  TTY mode requires /dev/tty to be read/writable.

    Creating a "laravel/laravel" project at "./example-app"
    Installing laravel/laravel (v10.3.1)
      - Downloading laravel/laravel (v10.3.1)
      - Installing laravel/laravel (v10.3.1): Extracting archive
    Created project in /opt/example-app
    
    In Factory.php line 310:
                                                                               
  Composer could not find a composer.json file in /opt/example-app             
  To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file. See https://ge  
  tcomposer.org/basic-usage                                                    
                                                                                   

    create-project [-s|--stability STABILITY] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--prefer-install PREFER-INSTALL] [--repository REPOSITORY] [--repository-url REPOSITORY-URL] [--add-repository] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [--no-secure-http] [--keep-vcs] [--remove-vcs] [--no-install] [--no-audit] [--audit-format AUDIT-FORMAT] [--ignore-platform-req IGNORE-PLATFORM-REQ] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--ask] [--] [<package> [<directory> [<version>]]]

bash: line 23: ./vendor/bin/sail: No such file or directory
bash: line 24: ./vendor/bin/sail: No such file or directory

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As you can see in the errors, somehow the necessary files and folders are not created. When I check in Finder I notice that the directory example-app actually gets created, but inside that folder it creates another folder called: laravel-laravel-890835b And that folder actually contains all the necessary files. How do I resolve these issues and get the correct directory structure?

Markkaz

2 years ago

Level 9

I seem to have found a culprit. I use an external ssd for my data and I tried to create the example app on this external disk. That seems to be the problem, because when I perform the same command in the Documents folder, I don't get any issues.

Is there anything that I need to set up to use an external disk?

Markkaz

2 years ago

Best Answer

Level 9

And again, my unfamiliarity with Mac / Apple seems to be the problem. After further investigating, I found out that the solution was to reformat the exernal harddrive from ExFAT to MAC OS Extended (Journaled).

After reformatting the command runs successfully without creating nested folders.

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