[FIXED] Composer could not find the config file: C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin

Issue

I cannot seem to install Laravel using the following command: composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-testing --prefer-dist as it keeps throwing the following error:

 [InvalidArgumentException]
 Composer could not find the config file: C:\Users\Kieran\AppData\Roaming\Co
 mposer\vendor\bin
 To initialize a project, please create a composer.json file as described in
  the http://getcomposer.org/ "Getting Started" section

The vendor and bin folders did not exist in the below path, so I created the folders vendor and then bin inside that but still no luck:

C:\Users\Kieran\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin

What am I doing wrong?

Solution

I managed to fix this problem. I had to delete the composerenvironment variable. Which can be found here: Control Panel>System>Edit the system environment variables>Environment variables>composer>delete

After I deleted this I could run the command I wanted with out any errors and it worked as expected: composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-testing --prefer-dist

Answered By - ifusion