Laravel showing plain 500 error (no Whoops or Ignition) - php

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I had a folder called .ignition in my home directory. Removing the folder solved the problem.
Update
Upon further inspection of the logs, I'm getting the following error:
[2020-08-19 16:56:45] local.ERROR: Facade\Ignition\IgnitionServiceProvider::Facade\Ignition\{closure}(): Failed opening required '/Users/username/.ignition' (include_path='.:/usr/local/Cellar/php#7.3/7.3.16/share/php#7.3/pear') {"exception":"[object] (Symfony\\Component\\ErrorHandler\\Error\\FatalError(code: 0): Facade\\Ignition\\IgnitionServiceProvider::Facade\\Ignition\\{closure}(): Failed opening required '/Users/username/.ignition' (include_path=' .:/usr/local/Cellar/php#7 .3/7.3.16/share/php#7.3/pear') at /Users/username/PhpstormProjects/test/vendor/facade/ignition/src/IgnitionServiceProvider.php:202)
Orignal
When throwing a custom exception from a controller (throw new Exception('Test Exception');) I'm getting a plain 500 error rather than the Ignition (or Whoops) debug pages in my Laravel 7.24 application. I have APP_DEBUG set to true and APP_ENV set to local.
Digging a bit deeper it seems as though the following line in vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Exceptions/Handler.php is checking to see if Whoops exists and uses that check to return either the Symfony error page or the Whoops one.
return config('app.debug') && class_exists(Whoops::class)
? $this->renderExceptionWithWhoops($e)
: $this->renderExceptionWithSymfony($e, config('app.debug'));
If I run dd(class_exists(Whoops::class)) I get true despite it being absent from my composer.json file. What's strange is that it looks like Ignition is pulling in filp/whoops as one of its dependencies, making this always true. Ignition is installed (as per the composer.json file below) but the error page is not showing. How does the Ignition package render its page if not from the vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Exceptions/Handler.php file?
To summarise, the logs are showing my exception being thrown but a simple 500 error with no context is being shown in the browser.
Any suggestions where I might look next?
{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"type": "project",
"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
"keywords": [
"framework",
"laravel"
],
"license": "MIT",
"require": {
"php": "^7.4.9",
"fideloper/proxy": "^4.2",
"fruitcake/laravel-cors": "^1.0",
"guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.3",
"intervention/image": "^2.5",
"laravel/cashier": "^11.2",
"laravel/framework": "^7.24",
"laravel/passport": "^8.4",
"laravel/telescope": "^3.2",
"laravel/tinker": "^2.0",
"laravel/ui": "^2.0",
"laravelcollective/html": "^6.1",
"league/flysystem-aws-s3-v3": "^1.0",
"spatie/laravel-permission": "^3.11",
"spatie/laravel-query-builder": "^2.8"
},
"require-dev": {
"facade/ignition": "^2.0",
"barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper": "^2.6",
"beyondcode/laravel-dump-server": "^1.4",
"fzaninotto/faker": "^1.9.1",
"mockery/mockery": "^1.3.1",
"nunomaduro/collision": "^4.1",
"phpunit/phpunit": "^8.5"
},
"config": {
"optimize-autoloader": true,
"preferred-install": "dist",
"sort-packages": true
},
"extra": {
"laravel": {
"dont-discover": []
}
},
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "app/"
},
"files": [
"app/Http/Support/Helpers/action_response_helpers.php"
],
"classmap": [
"database/seeds",
"database/factories"
]
},
"autoload-dev": {
"psr-4": {
"Tests\\": "tests/"
}
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"prefer-stable": true,
"scripts": {
"post-autoload-dump": [
"Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump",
"#php artisan package:discover --ansi"
],
"post-root-package-install": [
"#php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
],
"post-create-project-cmd": [
"#php artisan key:generate --ansi"
],
"post-update-cmd": [
"Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
"#php artisan ide-helper:generate",
"#php artisan ide-helper:meta"
]
}
}