Laravel 5 deployment getting internal server error - php

Question

Laravel 5 deployment getting :
Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request
My file structure:
|
|-pub -> from laravel folder public
|-my_apps
|- my_first_app -> all other files from laravel project
|- app
|- bootstrap
|- config
|- database
|- resources
|- storage
|- ...
I have set storage folder permission to be:
user::rwx
group::rwx
other::rwx
This is my .htaccess file in directory /pub
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase / <-------- I added this line
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>
I also change path in \pub\index.php
<?php
//updated path
require __DIR__.'/../my_apps/my_first_app/bootstrap/autoload.php';
//updated path
$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../my_apps/my_first_app/bootstrap/app.php';
$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
$response = $kernel->handle(
$request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
);
$response->send();
$kernel->terminate($request, $response);
PHP on my local machine is PHP 5.6, it is PHP 5.5. I tried to add
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php55 .php
in .htaccess after RewriteEngine On line.
update
The server runs PHP 5.5.0, so I downgraded my Laravel 5.1 to 5.0, and it works on homestead now.
And I'm following https://medium.com/laravel-news/the-simple-guide-to-deploy-laravel-5-application-on-shared-hosting-1a8d0aee923e#.50q2s8wer for deployment at this moment. Downgrade actually failed when I check version of laravel

Answer 1

Laravel 5.1 requires PHP 5.5.9, per packagist.
Laravel 5.0 has no bound PHP version requirement, per packagist, however anything less than PHP 5.5 is Not A Good Idea.
Since your server runs 5.5.0 (per comment), then I'm guessing you installed this outside of composer. Downgrade your Laravel environment or upgrade your PHP environment. Upgrading PHP is A Good Idea.

Answer 2

"Internal Server Errors" maybe caused by many reason. Library is not installed, misconfiguration, version conflicted.
So please check the apache errors in /var/log/apache or /var/log/httpd, Laravel errors for more detail about the error. If you cannot see error, be sure that you turned on php display error in php.ini file.

Answer 3

If you could check the logs in /var/log/apache2 or /var/log/httpd for errors, it would be much helpful. But, since you said that your server is running PHP 5.5.0 and
Downgrade actually failed when I check version of laravel
so, clearly the most probable reason is that your server is trying to run laravel 5.1 with PHP 5.5.0 which is not supported. The solution for you now is to create a fresh project with laravel 5.0 and then copy code files you have created from current project to the new project and update them accordingly so that they work with laravel 5.0.

Answer 4

In my case it was as simple as a case-sensitivity typo in one of my includes. I develop on a Windows machine, which doesn't care about case-sensitivity in file paths. After deploying to a Linux server however I got the infamous Internal Server error.
Checking laravels php_errors.log quickly made it clear what was wrong.