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 am trying to set up symfony. I am running ubuntu, I have apache2, phpmyadmin and phpstorm installed. I am getting this error under config.php of my project:
MAJOR PROBLEMS Major problems have been detected and must be fixed
before continuing: Change the permissions of either "app/cache/" or
"var/cache/" directory so that the web server can write into it.
Change the permissions of either "app/logs/" or "var/logs/" directory
so that the web server can write into it.
so I went to /var
I tried a few things:
sudo thunar and then changed all the permissions to writeable. This didn't work and the permissions changed right after.
I went on this site, it says to use certain commands to fix permissions: sudo chmod 754 /var/cache and sudo chmod 754 /var/log and sudo chmod -R 775 /var/cache and sudo chmod -R 775 /var/log
This also did not work
I should also note that I have cleared my cache and restarted apache2.
Glad you figure it out by your self.
In any case you can read more about it here: Setting up Permissions / Symfony2
Let me know. Ciao!
I figured it out. The cache and log are within the app themselves. This did not make much sense to me initially considering that the permissions of the folder they are in (the root, the www folder) had already had all their permissions set appropriately. All I did was set chmod -R 755 on those folders IN my app.
I am learning PHP at the moment on Linux. I have an Apache2 server running locally. Whenever I tried to save a PHP file into the root directory of Apache2 server ( /var/www/html/), I was told that permission denined.
So, I searched around and found that by default, the admininstartor do not have the root access unless explicitly request for it (like sudo su). I have also seen some posts which ask me to use gksu nautilus. However, my linux 14.04 LTS Ubuntu doesn't comes with it. (I know I can use apt-get gksu but at the moment, downloading it from internet is not an option).
Is there anyway that I can change the permission to my Apache2 server root directoy so that I can use any text editor to save/edit to that directory directly. Only the ways that do not need downloading stuffs from internet are feasiable for me at the moment.
For linux open the terminal with root login then go to the root folder and run the following command chmod 777 following is the example :-
To change all the directories to 777 (-rwxr-rwxr-rwxr):
find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
To change all the files to 644 (-rwxr-rwxr--rwxr--):
find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type f -exec chmod 777 {} \;
If this will not work then try the following :-
Create a new group
groupadd webadmin
Add your users to the group
usermod -a -G webadmin user1
usermod -a -G webadmin user2
Change ownership of the sites directory
chown root:webadmin /var/www/html/
Change permissions of the sites directory
chmod 2775 /var/www/html/ -R
Now anybody can read the files (including the apache user) but only root and webadmin can modify their contents.
Hope this will help you in solving your problem.
You can set the DocumentRoot in your /etc/apache2/httpd.conf file to a place where Apache has write access. For example, you could set it to /tmp/www if you made a directory there. (If you still don't have access, you can always give everyone read access by running chmod a+r /tmp/www, but you should probably be fine.)
Obviously leaving your Apache Document Root as /tmp/www is a bad idea, so you can change it to something like /home/chris once you've got it working.
One important note: after you make a change like this, you must restart the Apache server. This can be done by running apachectl restart; ironically, you might have to have administrator rights in order to execute this (or even edit the config file in the first place), so make sure you prefix your edit & restart with sudo just in case.
I get this cannot load phpMyAdmin message. I've tried creating the config folder and the config.inc.php file. When I ĺog on to localhost/phpmyadmin/setup/ it still gives me this message.
Error message: "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 given the www/html folder full rights.
How to I fix this?
thanks in advance!
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
So on my linux AWS instance, I am trying to install a laravel application and am running into an awful amount of permission problems.
By default, when I cloned my project into var/www/, the owner was Root. I changed the owner to apache, and added ec2-user to apache. From what I've read, this seems correct.
From there, I tried to run php composer.phar install, which resulted in a permissions error unless I ran it sudo, and then the error was that "Class 'PDO' not found in /var/www/Mumble/app/config/database.php".
So from there, it looked like PDO wasn't installed, so I used yum to install it, which got me the typical laravel error log, but it is now saying "could not find driver". Looking at php info, pdo is configured for mysqli. Could that be my problem? Does anybody know of some places I could look for resources?
First things first, the latest version of laravel is 4.3, compatible with PHP >= 5.4 (Source: Laravel Installation).
The bad news is, the yum package of apache on AWS comes with PHP 5.3. Check your php version using php phpinfo() in your ssh console.
If you have the proper PHP version, you will have to make sure PHP is running underneath the user apache.
Go to /etc/php.ini and search for the parameter user=. Make sure it says user=apache, and group=apache.
If all of this checks out, your final step is to make sure that your /app/storage directories are on a 777 permission with owner being apache. Only laravel uses these for internal purposes, so it's alright.
I suspect you need to give the permission to access, is it accessible the /var/www directory?
if not try this,
sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www
for secure permission use 775 for the directories.
perhaps permission you need to set:
# Set group to www-data
sudo chgrp www-data /var/www
# Make it writable for the group
sudo chmod 775 /var/www
# Set GID to www-data for all sub-folders
sudo chmod g+s /var/www
# Add your username to www-data group
sudo usermod -a -G www-data username
# Finally change ownership to username
sudo chown username /var/www/
# Your account shouldn't have any more permission issues
Note: please read about the file permission before you go further .