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've setup HHVM & NGINX on my local machine, and it works perfectly without any problems. Last day I did it on my Ubuntu VPS, but with alot of errors, which mostly has been fixed, but the one I am unable to resolve is this one:
Fatal error: require_once(/usr/share/nginx/html/app/interfaces/interface.core.php): File not found in /usr/share/nginx/html/global.php
Now the issue is, that the path and file does exist, but this only works if I try to require a .txt file, but doesn't work with for example .xml neither. I have included the web path inside my server.ini file also: included_path = /usr/share/nginx/html
Other than that, HHVM & NGINX is setup correctly, it just isn't able to handle requires or includes, I don't know why.
Okay, after some research, I found out I had to chown the root folder of my webserver, but it didn't work with /usr/share/nginx/html. I had to move my files to /var/www/html and change the root folder, then I used this to grant entire folder permission access. sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html
I'm a newbie in Linux, just installed ubuntu 14.04 and wanted to install WAMP (MAMP), I followed a youtube tutorial to install php5, apache2, mysql and phpmyadmin. Installed successfully both http://localhost and http://localhost/phpmyadmin works fine logged in successfully.
now I wanted to add some files and folders to apache www folder which is located at /var/www but cant create files or folders. I'm a Windows user where I usually keep all my PHP work in www folder.
I would like to know if there is a way to use any-other folder as www folder or how to create folders and files in that www folder. I reckon its permission issues, since being a newbie don't know how to fix that.. please help
Regards
Ubuntu 14.04 runs apache as user www-data, you can change to this user using the command in terminal (shell)
sudo su
This will make you root and have access to /var/www directory, and you will be able to create files and directories. Say you had a directory of images containing img1.jpg, img2.jpg, etc. in say /home/user1/images
as root you could
sudo su <- change to the document folder
cd /var/www <- change to the document folder
cp /home/user1/images/ . <- copy what you need to copy
chown -r www-data images/ <- give the web server read/write permission to the folder / files
which will let you do access the images via a browser via the url
http://localhost/images/img1.jpg
The reason is that apache runs under different user (given your distro most likely www-data), while /var/www belongs either to the user or root.
So if you want to allow apache to write somewhere you have to give it permissions.
Since it is not good practice to give apache full permission to your disk, usually you would have a special directory where it can upload data.
For example creating directory
/var/www/myProject/uploaded
and then giving permission to all to write there
chmod 777 /var/www/myProject/uploaded
Alternatively you can change the owner/group with chown.
Hi I just installed ubuntu alongside my Win 7 and I have been using xampp and am very familiar with it, but I just installed lamp and am using the apache2, php, and mysql from terminal and I copied a web folder over from my xampp side and it is saying that I do not have permission to access that file.
I know that on my pc I had some htaccess files but on Ubuntu I am yet to figure out how to view those. Is this a product of those .htaccess files or something else?
That happens if you install WAMP/XAMMP on system partition.
so you copied the files form windows to linux?
sounds like a classic file permissions problem.
per default the www folder is in /var/www, so you can simply set the owner of this folder to the apache user which is called www-data, run this in terminal:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www
but now you will no longer be able to write to those files yourself, because they are owned by www-data. checkout this answer for more details and how to get write access: https://askubuntu.com/a/51337
or you make it writeable for everyone (which is a bad idea): sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www
about editing .htaccess files:
I don't use linux with a graphical user interface, but you can edit them with the terminal editor of your choice, on ubuntu you have nano installed by default:
nano /var/www/.htaccess
or if you want a more advanced editor, I suggest vim https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VimHowto
vim /var/www/.htaccess
I've been using xampp to develop on windows with success but as recently I decided to make a change and start developing on Linux. I successfully installed xampp onto my linux machine. and the Apache sever is running "localhost". opt/lampp/htdocs is where Apache project resources are stored. the htdocs folder permission is restricting read and write, and i can't create folders and files to start my projects. I tried change permission for the folders but to no success.
How do i start developing on xampp severe and add files to /opt/lampp/htdocs
please advice ! ! !
cd /opt/lampp
sudo chmod 777 -R /opt/lampp/htdocs `
777 is the permission where you,group and other get all permission -R is any changes will affect in subdirectories and directories of subdirectories htdocs. where adding read=4;write=2 and execute=1 makes it 7.