I recently tried installing Laravel on my New VPS. I installed lamp stack and installed composer too.
I tried composer install in laravel directory but it always stuck showing
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
I waited almost 30 minutes but it doesn't work. I am stuck at this point, I tried installing twig using composer in another folder and that worked fine.
my VPS has Ubuntu 12.04 64bit, 256mb ram, PHP 5.3.10 , apache2.2 , git is installed too.
Please let me know what could me the problem
Perhaps try installing Laravel through Composer instead.
composer create-project laravel/laravel
This will do everything you need to get a new Laravel project up and running in one line, which I wrote about as a fast install for Laravel 4.