Laravel 5 Failed opening required bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php

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I have recently installed
Laravel 5 via composer. I tried creating a new controller using artisan and I get the
following error:

bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php. Failed to open stream: No such file or
directory. The "vendor" folder does not exist.

Am I missing
something?

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Turns out
I didn't enable openssl in my php.ini so when I created my new project with composer it
was installed from source. I changed that and ran

composer
            update

now the vendor
folder was created.