Why do I get a laravel error while creating a new project?

Question

When I type laravel new blog I get the following error.

In RequestException.php line 113:

Server error: GET http://cabinet.laravel.com/latest.zi

Answer 1

The simplest way to update to the next major version of the installer is via composer require to globally require it:

composer global require "laravel/installer:^4.0"

Worked for me.