I have a Laravel project that I copied from my Ubuntu server and now I am trying to run it my local machine (XAMPP on Mac) I have been struggling with this for a few days now and I feel like I am going insane.
When I paste my project in XAMPP htdocs folder I get this error:
View [welcome] not found
Which php artisan cache:clear makes that go away, then I get this error:
The bootstrap/cache directory must be present and writable
Then I do this, php artisan cache:clear which gives me a new error:
Class view does not exist
Then after that no matter what I do either in terminal or viewing the web browser, I always get the error
Class view does not exist
Then I have tried composer update still the same error.....what am I doing wrong?
This has been a nightmare.
Last time i checked Laravel doesnt run on XAMPP but rather on the PHP installed when installing XAMPP so the project can be saved anywhere on the computer.
Given this being the fact, you will need to just have an active PHP installation and then you copy only the relevant files of the project onto the new computer (such files that you will get when you push your project onto GitHub). It doesn`t come with cache issues then all you need to do afterwards is to
php artisan key:generate
then composer install or composer update to get the vendor packages from online
My money right now is on picking the relevant files and reinstall with them
According to my own installation when changing the computer this is the list you will have to copy
I just tried to reproduce your issue on my mac. So i have installed XAMPP with the PHP version 7.1.25 which is the equivalent version of my local PHP version
So I installed the XAMPP and started server.
Downloaded my laravel project folder from my ubuntu server and copied it to htdocs (XAMPP)
When i tried to run http://localhost/myproject/public it shows the exception like
There is no existing directory at "/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/myproject/storage/logs" and its not buildable: Permission denied
Then i gave full permission to the storage folder
chmod -R 777 storage
And changed ownership for the files inside myproject folder.
Here i just checked the ownership of the dashboard directory which is running perfectly and given the same user ownership of myproject directory.
chown -R root:admin .
Then following commands
composer install
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan view:clear
php artisan route:clear
After this my laravel code runs perfectly.
Class view does not exist
is probably a ownership issue of the directory
For me (when developing on xampp, what I do for all my projects) - I'd not recommend to put your stuff in the htdocs folder. Laravel expects to not be hosted on a subfodler e.g. (localhost/my-project). So you should set up a virtual host in order to make it work easily (e.g. my-project.test) which is a bit annoying.
Simple solution is using the php artisan serve command in order to simply setup a local server on port 8000.
Don't forget to start xampp for the mysql server.
Some typical tips were already mentioned:
delete vendor folder & run composer install (install composer if you haven't)
run composer dump-autoload
run php artisan key:generate
ofcourse don't forget the migration php artisan migrate
and clear your full cache php artisan cache:clear
Usually you do not need to set any file permissions afaik
chmod -R 777 storage/
If you have a different user for apache2 (usually www-data), also do:
chown -R www-data storage/
You could also check if it runs with the built-in server:
php artisan serve
You can create .htaccess file and add below data into .htaccess file
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^public
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$1 [L]
</IfModule>
After create .htaccess file, set laravel root path in terminal and run below command in terminal
php artisan serve
Since your Apache is already serving then you have permission problems only. And since you're using Mac, the default user name and group in Apache conf is _www for Mac and not www-data that is for Ubuntu. You can see it in the httpd.conf file :
<IfModule unixd_module>
#
# If you wish httpd to run as a different user or group, you must run
# httpd as root initially and it will switch.
#
# User/Group: The name (or #number) of the user/group to run httpd as.
# It is usually good practice to create a dedicated user and group for
# running httpd, as with most system services.
#
User _www
Group _www
</IfModule>
Now, use terminal, get in your project directory let's say cd /var/www/laravel-project1 and make sure that the group _www (or the user too in some case of your App environment logic` has access (read and write) to :
All public directory and sub-directories containing assets if you have.
sudo chgrp -R _www public
sudo chmod -R 774 public
Storage directory and sub-directories specified here (storage/framework -> all, storage/logs -> all, storage/app -> public directory only), and bootstrap/cache directory and files
sudo chgrp -R _www storage/framework storage/logs storage/app/public bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R 774 storage/framework storage/logs storage/app/public bootstrap/cache
That should get rid of all of your permissions problem to access pages.
BUT now if on using the page, sessions and logs files that are created you get other problems, there might be a last problem of permission which is called UMask, which tell Apache or Web Server like Nginx what permission to assign to newly created directory or files for the user _www. By default Apache umask is 0002, which give 0775 for directory and 0664 for new file. If ever umask value was changed to 0022 like it's the default in Nginx, then the equivalent permissions 0755 or 0644 will not be sufficient for your Apache group _www to write in the directories that have group _www. So you can either change umask to 0002 or change owner to _www :
sudo chown -R _www public storage/framework storage/logs storage/app/public
So that depends on your configs.
I ran into the same problem as you, but not moving from ubuntu to mac, it was from windows to linux, I was in a total mess, but only git rescued me, it might give you a bit of pain, but it is going to save you in the future.
Here is the steps you need to do.
Create empty repository on the mac using this command git init --bare.
Clone the repository to the ubuntu using git clone.
Copy your laravel code to the clone you made in step 2.
Push the files from the ubuntu to the MAC.
Test the project.
The directory you will create in the mac, it can be inside the htdocs of the xammp.
I know it might be painful task to do, but it is quite worth it.
Sources for more information:
git-scm
Getting Git on Server
If you need more help, I'll be more than happy to discuss it with you.
Note: The following works for Laravel 5.x but also 4.2, not tested with other versions
Why not using Git?
(If you are not familiar with it, have a look at the official website, there are also tons of tutorials on the web)
Usually, copy-pasting entire projects is not a good idea, because of some file/directory permissions and other not-so-good stuff.
That's what I did to move my project from Windows to my Ubuntu Server:
Put your project on a git repository (GitHub, GitLab, or whatever), the .gitignore files provided with the Laravel apps are, in most cases, good enough
On your new machine, clone your repository
Do a
composer dump-autoload
composer install
To migrate your db, do
php artisan migrate
and if you have seeding, do this
php artisan db:seed
Then, if you have problem with file/folder permissions, do not EVER do a chmod -R 777 path/, if you have to do this to solve your problem, you are doing something wrong.
This command grants all privileges to anyone to all the files and folders in the path folder.
In your case, you have to do the following:
First, find which username is apache using to run the server (usually it's www-data)
ps aux | egrep '(apache|httpd)'
Then, change the project directory owner to apache's user (example for www-data apache user)
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/htdocs/your-project/
Set folders permissions
sudo find /var/htdocs/your-project/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Set files permissions
sudo find /var/htdocs/your-project/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
To fix the bootstrap/cache and storage/ permission problem, do
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/htdocs/your-project/
Laravel 5.x
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx /var/htdocs/your-project/storage /var/htdocs/your-project/bootstrap/cache
Laravel 4.2
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx /var/htdocs/your-project/storage /var/htdocs/your-project/app/bootstrap/cache
Then, you should be good.
Doing that way, you can easily move your project from a machine to another without struggling with permission fixes or anything.
More info and source for files and folders permissions command-line instructions, see Laravel 5 Files Folders Permission and Ownership Setup
Go to your project folder add run these commands from terminal
sudo chmod -R 777 your_projrct/storage
sudo chmod -R 777 your_projrct/bootstrap/cache
sudo chown -R :www-data your_project
sudo chmod -R g+s your_project
then php artisan key:generate and composer install
when user/group www-data are unkown; most Linux distributions use apache:
chown -R apache:apache dirname
while on OSX, this would be user/group _www:
chown -R _www:_www dirname
adding the current user to group _www might make life easier, in general.
To isolate your issues:
Get your code into a repository(bitbucket or github)
Clone the repository into your local environment
Run composer install
Run php artisan serve. This way you rule out xampp as an issue.
In your browser go to localhost:8000
If you already have your entire codebase on your local box(including the vendor folder) then skip steps 1 and 2. Step 3 wouldn't hurt, but you can probably skip that too.
Once you get everything working, switch to xampp.
First of all:
composer update
composer dumpautoload
php artisan cache:clear
And then just configure a virtual host
1. Create a local domain for your app
Edit hosts file and redirect all requests from your domain to 127.0.0.1:
127.0.0.1 lara.vel
2. Configure a Virtual Host
Edit \xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf:
<VirtualHost lara.vel:80>
DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel\public"
ServerAdmin laravel.dev
<Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Done! Open up your domain in your browser, You'll see your project there!
The other way is simple, Just run artisan serve.
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I think if you copied the project from Ubuntu so it is a permissions problem.
first get users on your Mac machine by typing this in terminal
users
then copy the user you just got for example (username) and use it in this command
sudo chown -R username project-directory
then check for yourproject-directory/bootstrap/cache if it not exists, go create it. else run this command:
sudo chmod -R guo+w project-directory/bootstrap/cache
then
sudo chmod -R guo+w project-directory/storage
then clear composer autoload and cache and config using artisan command
composer dump-autoload
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan view:clear
php artisan route:clear
now try to run the project if the problem still exists,
you need to check config/app.php if it contains Illuminate\View\ViewServiceProvider::class
the view service provider.
if it is not there, so add it
I have LAMP server
Server version: Apache/2.4.29 (Ubuntu)
PHP: PHP 7.2.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
I need to give an php SQLITE3 access to db outside www/html folder.
Right now my filesystem looks this way.
/root
./database
user.db
/var
./www
./html
index.html
reg.php
user.db must be located in /root/database, so just putting it inside var/www/html isn't solution for me.
So I need to give access to this folder for Apache or php.
I found some information here https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/urlmapping.html, but didn't get how this works and where I need to put this?
The problem here is Linux permissions, not URL mapping, as PHP is running in the server, in the backend.
If you run PHP as an Apache module, (mod_php or something like that), it will run with the Apache user and group (usually www-data:www-data or nobody:nogroup, it depends of the LAMP configuration).
So, you should give permissions and change ownership to the user.db file and its tree, something like:
chmod o+x /root
chmod o+x /root/database
chown www-data:www-data /root/database/user.db
You can read more about permissions here.
I configured a web service locally using FOSRestBundle, and it's working perfectly. The only thing i need to write to start my service is
php bin/console server:run xxx.xxx.x.xx:port
and it's all set.
But then i was reading some documentation about the symfony web server, and this information is confusing me:
The built-in web server is meant to be run in a controlled
environment. It is not designed to be used on public networks.
How i'm suppose to use this in my cloud environment? If i want to make this public, how should i start my REST service without using this built-in server?
What is equivalent to the "server:run" command? If i just put the code there, it will not work. I need to start the server for my REST API.
The equivaluent of the server:run command in a production environment is a bit more involved. The web server on a public facing machine has more responsibility than a local development server, and so it needs a bit more configuration.
For production (or even staging) purposes, use a production-ready web server like Apache or Nginx.
I'll share a default setup for apache, on a Debian-based (Ubuntu) system here, and detail a few common pitfalls to avoid.
Install LAMP components
ssh into your machine, and run this command to make sure that apache, php, mysql, etc, are all installed!
First, get the most recent data from the repositories:
sudo apt-get update
The LAMP components that you'll need to run symfony on:
sudo apt-get install apache2 mysql-server libapache2-mod-auth-mysql php5-mysql php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt
Be sure to store down the root MySQL pass if it asks you for one. (in the event you didn't have it installed, yet.)
Configure MySQL
sudo mysql_install_db to initialize MySQL's system/help tables, etc.
sudo /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation to drop test tables, reload privilege tables.
Jump into the MySQL shell and create a user & db for your app.
mysql -u root -p, and supply your root pw when prompted.
mysql> CREATE USER 'otuyh'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; will create your otuyh user with the password password.
mysql> CREATE DATABASE otuyh_app; will create the database your app needs to run on.
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON otuyh_app.* TO 'otuyh'#'localhost';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
Configure Apache (the production version of server:run)
Clone or upload your project to /var/www/html.
Edit /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf and change the line:
DocumentRoot /var/www/html to DocumentRoot /var/www/html/web
This tells apache which directory to serve requests from the web folder of your app.
Also, alter the line ServerName white-macbook to ServerName example.com where example.com is the domain name pointed at your server.
Finally, add an AllowOverride All line in there, too, to explicitly state that your .htaccess file can also add directives for the web server.
Drop an .htaccess file in your web/ folder that looks something like this:
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Explicitly disable rewriting for front controllers
RewriteRule ^app_dev.php - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# Change below before deploying to production
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ app_dev.php [QSA,L]
</IfModule>
Alter app_dev to just app, when you're ready to change the environment to production.
Make sure you restart the apache2 service after having altered it's config: sudo service restart apache2.
Run your regular sf2 schema creation, composer install, etc.
And then, make sure that the apache user that serves the files up indeed has access to them!
Additionally, after running composer * or cache:clear as a user other than the one serving files, write permissions can get mixed up, and www-data will need this privilege to write logs, and get cached files. A quick solution:
chown -R your-unix-user:www-data ./app
find ./app/cache -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find ./app/logs; -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
find ./app/cache -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \
find ./app/logs -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \
Like mentioned the built in Webserver is for Development only.
It is slow and open to all kinds of attacks.
You can run your Service like any other application with a Webserver.
There is a guide on the Symfony site that shows you how to do that.
http://symfony.com/doc/current/deployment.html
Or if you have root access to your cloud server you can configure your Webserver
https://symfony.com/doc/current/setup/web_server_configuration.html
I have been trying to setup phpMyAdmin on a macbook pro running yosemite 10.10.2. I have created a config folder in phpmyadmin and have given it the permissions required:
chmod o+wr ~/Sites/phpmyadmin/config
However, when I then go onto "localhost/phpmyadmin/setup" I get an error:
Cannot load or save configuration
Please create web server writable folder config in phpMyAdmin top level
directory as described in documentation. Otherwise you will be only able to
download or display it.
(I have tried attaching an image, but can't due to my reputation points)
I have tried resetting the permissions, tried deleting and recreating the folder. Tried redownloading the phpmyadmin zip but nothing seems to work.
Could anyone kindly advise me what I am doing wrong and how I am best placed to solve this issue?
I have had similar issue on my Ubuntu 16.04. I made a research and in the end I found a resolution of the issue. Maybe my case solution will help somebody else.
Background: For security reasons I have non privileged user and group apache:apache (sudo groupadd apache | useradd -g apache apache). They are preset by directives (User apache; Group apache) in /etc/apache2/apache2.conf. This user apache:apache owns Apache2 main directory (sudo chown -R apache:apache /etc/apache2) and some other files, for example: sudo chown -R apache:apache/etc/phpmyadmin/htpasswd.setup
In this manual: http://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/setup.html - I found that...
Debian and Ubuntu have changed way how setup is enabled and disabled,
in a way that single command has to be executed for either of these.
To allow editing configuration invoke:
/usr/sbin/pma-configure
To block editing configuration invoke:
/usr/sbin/pma-secure
Note! In the content of the two files listed above we talk about /var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php instead of /etc/phpmyadmin/config/config.inc.php. It was the key.
In my case I was modified the content of these scripts (see below) and now I can use localhost/phpmyadmin/setup properly.
/usr/sbin/pma-configure:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Unsecuring phpMyAdmin installation..."
echo "Setup script can now write to the configuration file."
echo
echo "Do not forget to run /usr/sbin/pma-secure after configuring,"
echo "otherwise your installation might be at risk of attack."
sudo sudo chown -R apache:apache /var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
chmod 0660 /var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
/usr/sbin/pma-secure:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Securing phpMyAdmin installation..."
echo "Setup script won't be able to write configuration."
sudo sudo chown -R root:root /var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
chmod 0640 /var/lib/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
I was able to use phpMyAdmin in my ~/Sites directory and remove the warning by giving the config folder writable access as such:
chmod 756 ~/Sites/phpmyadmin/config
Does it work if you try setting up PHPMyAdmin in system root versus user root? On OSX that server web root should be under /Library/WebServer/Documents?
I used this guide when I set mine up, and it works fine, although I did not use Sites as my root.
http://www.dingendoen.com/osx-installs-configuration-examples/install-apache-mysql-php-on-osx-yosemite/
For local development, changing permissions worked for an OSX Sierra install:
sudo chown -R _www:_www ~/Sites/phpmyadmin
I have got a project to work on that is based on laravel. I have unzipped the folder in my
/home/testsite/public folder and replaced the httpd.conf file which I have received.
Ran these two commands
chown -R username:group /home/testsite/public
chmod -R 777 /home/testsite/public/app/storage
But when I try to access localhost it shows default apache page, for other route url it shows 404 and it shows Forbidden when I try to access localhost/server.php
I have pasted my httpd.conf file here: http://pastebin.com/WLpFN7Sr
From your httpd.conf I see that your apache user is apache and its group is also apache. You can see that from these entries in the httpd.conf:
User apache
Group apache
Try this from within your project directory:
chown -R :apache .
I would also suggest that you not put virtual host or directory definitions inside of your httpd.conf. Most distributions have a good place already for you to put them, where you can store a single vhost inside of a single file. This makes it much easier when you want to enable one, disable another and general management becomes easier.
For instance, on ubuntu, I store all of my vhosts as separate files inside of:
/etc/apache2/sites-available/