PHP Warning: require_once - php

Question

I'M Trying to run a cloned project and set my php evironment but everytime i try to execute php artisan serve commad,it gives me this error... the problem is that im new to laravel...
almando#almando-ThinkPad-Edge-E531:~/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce$ php artisan serve
Starting Laravel development server: http://127.0.0.1:8000
[Mon Dec 19 00:16:03 2022] PHP Warning: require_once(/home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/public/index.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/server.php on line 21
[Mon Dec 19 00:16:03 2022] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/public/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/server.php on line 21
[Mon Dec 19 00:16:03 2022] 127.0.0.1:35764 [200]: /favicon.ico
[Mon Dec 19 00:16:10 2022] PHP Warning: require_once(/home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/public/index.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/server.php on line 21
[Mon Dec 19 00:16:10 2022] PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required '/home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/public/index.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php') in /home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/server.php on line 21
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I don't know where to make changes is there someone who help me out on this, i will appreciate it..
below is the server.php
<?php
/**
* Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
*
* #package Laravel
* #author Naft Otell <naft#laravel.com>
*/
$uri = urldecode(
parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH)
);
// This file allows us to emulate Apache's "mod_rewrite" functionality from the
// built-in PHP web server. This provides a convenient way to test a Laravel
// application without having installed a "real" web server software here.
if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/public'.$uri)) {
return false;
}
require_once __DIR__.'/public/index.php';
below is the index.php
<?php
ini_set('serialize_precision', -1);
/**
* Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
*
* #package Laravel
* #author Taylor Otwell <taylor#laravel.com>
*/
define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Register The Auto Loader
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
| our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
| into the script here so that we don't have to worry about manual
| loading any of our classes later on. It feels great to relax.
|
*/
require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Turn On The Lights
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| We need to illuminate PHP development, so let us turn on the lights.
| This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
| will load up this application so that we can run it and send
| the responses back to the browser and delight our users.
|
*/
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/bootstrap/app.php';
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Run The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request
| through the kernel, and send the associated response back to
| the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative
| and wonderful application we have prepared for them.
|
*/
$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
$response = $kernel->handle(
$request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
);
$response->send();
$kernel->terminate($request, $response);
The question is how would you solve this if it was you?
Thank you

Answer 1

Assuming folder doesn't have the permissions needed, try with this:
chown -R {username}:www-data /home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce
chmod -R 750 /home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce
chmod -R 770 /home/almando/Documents/laravelPro/active-ecommerce/storage