Routes file not properly loaded - php

I have just installed a new installation of Laravel using composer as per the laravel docs. The documentation refers to the app/routes.php file which is used to map routes to controllers or closed functions. First, there was no app/routes.php file so I created one. Now the routes I've copied from the laravel documentation aren't being found when accessing via the browser. In fact the app/routes.php file isn't even being found by the application as I have put a die statement in there and nothing. It has nothing to do with .htaccess. I am using the default .htaccess and redirects are working. I thought maybe it has something to do with the composer.json autoload array so I have tested that and nothing. Not a jot. Either I'm being thick or there is something fundamental which isn't being explained in the docs. I'm running the latest version of laravel. Any ideas?

Laravel changed the folder structure with its latest release (which is version 5):
In 4.2: app/routes.php
In 5.0: app/Http/routes.php
There's also a few things you need to do in order for a Laravel Project to work. First (and this is the method I use) create a symbolic link to your project's public folder:
ln -s /path/to/webroot/example_app/public /path/to/webroot/example
Next, change the permissions on your storage folder:
chmod 777 -R storage
You should now be able to access localhost/example and the Laravel 5 welcome page should show up. Usually I call my project example_app and create a link to a folder called example, so I can easily access it via localhost/example

In Laravel 5, the routes file is located elsewhere: app/Http/routes.php.

Basically I did chmod 777 on the storage and vendor files and it started working

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Access Core PHP folder inside a Laravel 8 project

Laravel Project is installed in my root directory and I have another project inside root directory with Core PHP ,
COREPHP-PROJECT is the one I want to access , but every time I try to access example.com/COREPHP-PROJECT it's giving me 404 error.
I have tried more than 50 solutions from internet and nothing is working so far.
What I'm doing wrong here?
NOTE: .htaccess file is renamed as I wanted to test without it too.
I think it is actually fine to have a project directory inside the applications root directory. A good application should not be build inside the framework. It should be build with the framework. If in 5 years somehow laravel is not anymore supported you can decouple it more easy and use it in a new framework.
You just need to assign the path to your composer.json under the psr-4 part.
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"MainApplication\\": "app/",
"CorePhpProject\\": "CORE-PHP-PROJECT/app/",
But you should only route over the Laravel router.
You can add your routes inside laravels RouteServiceProvider.php
Have a look at the documentation:
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/routing#the-default-route-files
Should look something like this then:
Route::prefix('coreproject')
->group(base_path('CORE-PHP-PROJECT/routes/web.php'));
Then you can call your laravel routes like this
/home
and the project one are called like /coreproject/home
I got into same task of integrating core php folder inside laravel , therefore solution i found that create a core php file with extension test.php in public folder at laravel root, and try to access in browser after php artisan serve, you will find you can access it.

Larverl's response()->file() must be prefixed with the current directory

On a fresh Laravel 8 installation I follow these steps:
php artisan storage:link
Inside /public/storage/ I create folder images/ and inside I paste an image called picture.png
In web.php I define a route like this:
Route::get('/picture', function(
return response()->file(Storage::url("images/picture.png"));
))
However, if I visit this route in browser, the picture is not shown and the following error is thrown:
Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\Exception\FileNotFoundException
The file "/storage/images/picture.png" does not exist
It works only if the url inside response()->file() is prefixed with ./ indicating the current directory like this:
return response()->file('./'.Storage::url("images/picture.png"));
I don't think it is a good idea to work with relative paths locally, the Storage and file methods should handle this. Maybe it is even an issue with the framework.
Any ideas how to go around this hack?
I think you didn't configure the local driver check the documentation https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/filesystem#the-public-disk and look for local driver.
If you configure it right it should return the "/" that you're adding manually.

change laravel directory to www/cms/

Currently my directory is var/www/
but i have other projects in this directory .for example:
var/www/wordpress/
laravel tell me :
Sorry, the page you are looking for could not be found.
how can change laravel directory to var/www/cms ?
does work another project?
how can do that?
I commented earlier .. But I think to make the comment more clear I am going to go ahead and answer this:
First what you need to do is cd into /var/www/cms
Next you need to create your Laravel application. While in the cms directory, issue your Laravel creation command IE composer create-project laravel/laravel your-project-name. Once it is finished .. You should have a directory in the cms directory named whatever you named your Laravel Project IE var/www/cms/your-project-name.
You then need to point your hosts file (whether Nginx or Apache) to the directory var/www/cms/your-project-name for whatever domain.
I hope this was simplified enough for you, and good luck!
Laravel Valet could be one of the Solution.
You could create seperate Host for your Specific Application at Localhost.
Explained here : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19425086/alias-hostname-for-localhost
You could Create new Directory and run your Laravel Project there too.

Remove server.php from Laravel routes

I just installed laravel following the instruction on Larvel docs. I chose to use install via composer create project command.
In the routes. php i created a dummy route
Route::get('/', function(){
return 'Front Page';
});
When i access http://localhost/mysite/ It shows directory listing of mysite folder. However when i use http://localhost/mysite/server.php It runs my route closure.
I also tried alternate .htaccess code provided at Laravel's docs but that doesn't work either.
I want to remove the server.php from url.
Thanks in advance for help.
This behavior is expected and this is how Laravel works. The public folder is meant for assets and is also (supposed to be) the webservers root directory.
If you are working on localhost that is not the case and the root directory contains multiple projects.
In order to get rid of public you would have to change virtual host settings.
As mentioned here in the site.
The problem with doing virtual hosts is that other projects in localhost will become inaccessible.

Laravel 4 - class not found on live server

I'm uploading my laravel 4 app to a testing server which is shared hosting.
I'm uploading to a password protected directory which has a .htaccess file within it. My subdomain points to the public folder.
For the most part they app is working as expected I can log in, view most of the pages however every class that I have created such as a helper class and additional controllers are not being found on the live server yet all works on my local environment.
I've redone a composer dump-autoload and uploaded the composer.json file
I'm not sure where to start with this.
In my upload I've included all the files and folders to the live server (twice now). I read somewhere else I should namespace my classes but why would this help if the main laravel controllers do not namespace?
Confused - all help appreciated
When you do a composer update, if Composer finds anything new it will update some files in the folder
vendor/composer
Like the file autoload_classmap.php.
So, you have to reupload at least this folder too.
Maybe it's about git, you are pushing changings with some certain case sensitive Folders and Files, but git is changing this therefore it will work on Mac and Windows OSs but not on the server.
just use this command:
git config core.ignorecase false
above command for the current repository and you may add --global just after config keyword.
please note that ignorecase option available since version 1.5.6 and I assume you are running 2.0.x but just mentioning!

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