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

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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.

have you tried doing it the other way around? using sudo su first, entering your password, and then using the curl command? — Gonzalo F S, May 29 '21 at 17:17
Now I get an error though. "chown: cannot access '.': No such file or directory" — chinyoka, May 29 '21 at 17:26
you did everything using root/sudo , right? And what directory are you in? — Gonzalo F S, May 29 '21 at 17:30
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" — chinyoka, May 29 '21 at 17:34
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 — Gonzalo F S, May 29 '21 at 17:37
Yep, that worked! I was just in D:\projects, but putting it in C:\projects worked. Thanks a lot! — chinyoka, May 29 '21 at 17:44

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '21 at 19:18

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

it must work

answered Dec 06 '21 at 19:18

Rafael Gonçalves

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '21 at 17:50

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

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 18 '22 at 23:00

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

answered Mar 18 '22 at 23:00

EnriqueRBT

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

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