Failed to install laravel

Question

I was installing laravel framework by composer in visual studio code. composer create-project laravel/laravel ems but it failed to install the laravel. here is the message $ composer create-project laravel/laravel ems Installing laravel/laravel (v5.5.0) - Installing laravel/laravel (v5.5.0): Downloading (failed) Downloading (failed) Downloading (failed) Failed to download laravel/laravel from dist: The " https://api.github.com/repos/laravel/laravel /zipball/a6c68c24c9938beef0128c3288502b8fbdf8e93d" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: A connection at tempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection fai led because connected host has failed to respond.

Now trying to download from source

- Installing laravel/laravel (v5.5.0): Cloning a6c68c24c9 from cache

[RuntimeException] Failed to clone https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git via https, ssh protocols, aborting. - https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git Cloning into 'C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\ems'... fatal: unable to access ' https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git/ ': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Tim ed out - git@github.com:laravel/laravel.git Cloning into 'C:\\xampp\\htdocs\\ems'... ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Connection timed out fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

create-project [-s|--stability STABILITY] [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--repository REPOSITORY] [--repository-url REPOSITORY-URL] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [--no-secure-http] [--keep- vcs] [--no-install] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--] [] [] []

Answer 1

I think you miss something "--prefer-dist"

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel projectName

look at the documentation https://laravel.com/docs/5.5