I have two controllers with the same name:
app\controllers\CareersController.php (for public use)
app\controllers\Admin\CareersController.php (for admins)
Because of the naming conflict, I added namespace admin; to the admin controller.
Everything works fine locally but when I uploaded the new admin controller to my server, I get an error: Class Admin\CareersController does not exist
From what I understand, the fix is:
php artisan dump-autoload
and composer dump-autoload
However, I don't have Shell access to run those commands and composer isn't installed on the server anyway. So, is there a way to reload the auto-load file without Shell access?
Run composer dump-autoload locally. Then, in your hosting site,
you can update two files, autoload_classmap.php and autoload_static.php, manually in vendor/composer folder. I prefer to copy and paste the added classes from local to the hosting server.
You dont need shell access. Artisan includes a dump-autoload function. You can just it via a PHP call within your app:
Route::get('/updateapp', function()
{
\Artisan::call('dump-autoload');
echo 'dump-autoload complete';
});
Edit: just noticed you wrote "composer isn't installed on the server anyway". Not sure what will happen - try the command above and let us know.
If it doesnt work - then just run composer dump-autoload locally - then upload your new autoload.php.
As a side point - is there any option to switch servers? You going to keep running into various issues if you dont have command line & composer access. You could just use Forge and spin up a new server on DigitalOcean, Linode etc in less time than it would take to fix this issue :)
I was using a shared hosting by client's requirements and did not have access to ssh or composer, what I did was to composer dump-autoload on my local machine and then I figured that for my project autoloader just updates composer directory in my vendor directory, so I just re-uploaded that one folder after each dump-autoload and not all vendor directory
Edit:
Another pitfall for me that generated the same error but the cause was something else, I develop on Windows machine in which file and directory names are case insensitive when deploying to Linux server, the framework could actually not find my controllers so I changed
Route::get('/news', 'newsController#index');
to
Route::get('/news', 'NewsController#index');
now it is working, autoload is doing it's job correctly
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I have my laravel project installed using homestead and I connect to it via SSH using Vagrant(on Windows). The first time I launched my project there was a message indicating i have an error in my public/index.php file indicating that directory specified in 'require' on 14 line is not found it was written like this
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
then I just replaced this line of code with directory of welcome.blade.php file (require .../welcome.blade.php) (the home page of Laravel) and this page displayed each time I went to my project website but there was another message displayed saying
Illuminate\Foundation\Application' not found in
/home/vagrant/code/myProject/bootstrap/app.php on line 14.
I think that is because of the laravel version installed enter image description here
What I find quite suspicious is that I haven't got env file and vendor folder inside my project folder. vendor folder was located in AppData/Roaming/Composer folder by default. I just moved that folder to my project folder
First thing, Revert the changes within public/index.php back to how it was. That deals with autoloading and bootstrapping the laravel application and should never really be changed.
Now ssh to your vagrant box and within the laravel project, run cp .env.example .env and then edit the newly copied .env file to have all your details for DATABASE and APP_NAME.
Next, go into your project, and run composer install and this will install all the needed dependencies from the composer.json file.
And lastly, from within your project, you should now run php artisan key:generate to generate the APP_KEY.
This should fix your issue.
I would also advice that you look carefully over the documentation at https://laravel.com/docs
We'd like to create a bundle which can deployed via composer/packagist for others to use. It'll wrap the logic created by the owners of MessageBird. Basically a kind of Service which will indeed be called with the container via ourvendor.messagebird.messaging.
Since it's a type of bundle (as per the docs of Sf3), we created a bundle while following the documentation:
http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/SensioGeneratorBundle/commands/generate_bundle.html
As the directory /src we used /vendor instead. That's when it all went wrong. Our namespace could not be located, loaded or even when we manually added it to the autoloading classes of Composer it failed all the same.
The question is, what is the best practice to go about this? We got it working right now and what we did was the following:
We created a bundle wit the following cmd:
bin/console generate:bundle --shared --namespace=OurVendor/MessageBird/MessageBirdBundle --bundle-name=MessageBirdBundle --format=yml
We moved the /src/OurVendor directory to /vendor/OurVendor as the only way to get a perfect generation was to use the default /src folder.
We manually updated the AppKernel.php
We did some debugging with namespaces for Composer but eventually we added "OurVendor\\":"vendor/" to the "autoload/psr-4" directive in root composer.json
We ran composer dumpautoload && bin/console cache:clear -e dev which resulted in an error.
We ran composer -o update which checked all dependencies and updated accordingly, including autogenerated autoload files
Strangely enough we had to add the Bundle to the AppKernel.php class and cleaned the cache again.
After all this it worked but the documentation said no such thing about developing a 3rd party vendor bundle.
http://symfony.com/doc/current/bundles/best_practices.html
So long story short, did we go about it the wrong way or what?
/vendor directory is managed by composer. Do not copy/move anything there. Don't even edit anything there, unless you understand all consequences.
When you create a shared bundle, you need to push it to a VCS of your choice, and add it as a dependency in composer.json of the project which uses it.
When you run composer update it will check-out your bundle into /vendor directory and generate correct autoload file.
Please read more how to use private repositories with composer.
I have a local project with loaded with Composer libs. I uploaded this project to my FTP and received errors, connected with not found classes from some libs.
Can I simply copy vendor/ folder to FTP or I missed something?
Error received:
Fatal error: Class 'AAA\Core\Tools' not found in /home/aaa/public_html/api.php on line 11
api.php:
<?php
use AAA\Core\Tools;
require_once("./vendor/autoload.php");
require_once("./api/" . Tools::getFieldValue('controller') . ".php");
All works fine on localhost!
Linux has a case sensitive file system. That means that files Alex.txt and alex.txt are the same thing in Windows, but not in Linux. Actually on Linux both can happily live in the same directory:
$ tree .
.
├── alex.txt
└── Alex.txt
0 directories, 2 files
Taking this into consideration, I would try to double check that the paths you are using in your namespace are actually identical to what is found at the file system level. (i.e: AAA directory with only uppercase letters ; Core directory capitalized and Tools.php file capitalized)
If you want to keep your existing file system layout, you can use PSR-4 to explicitly tell Composer how to map the namespace to the file system:
Change autoload section from your composer.json:
{
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {"AAA\\DB\\": "db/"}
}
}
where db/ is the actual path from the file system
Update the autoloader:
$ composer dump-autoload
This will take care of directory names, but doesn't apply for files. Meaning that any file inside db/ must be named exactly as used in namespace (for a usage as use AAA\DB\DBCore the file must be db/DBCore.php).
If your file is named dbcore.php and you want to reference it in your namespace as DBCore, you can use classmap feature from Composer:
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"db/dbcore.php"
]
}
dbcore.php:
<?php
namespace AAA\DB;
class DBCore
{
}
And you can use it as usual:
<?php
require_once("./vendor/autoload.php");
$dbCore = new \AAA\DB\DBCore();
Firstly I would check the autoloader files composer has generated to make sure the paths are valid on your linux server.
Another simple but common issue is that on windows the folder and file names are not case sensitive however they are on Linux. Double check that the folders and files have the correct case as if not it won't find them to auto load.
Rather than trying to upload via FTP which I think is going to be tricky if not impossible to get right, I would suggest you explore getting composer working on your hosting environment.
Composer is entirely PHP based, so should run anywhere that PHP is running.
If you don't have command line access, you can use something like PHPShell which gives you a PHP based command line on which you can then run Composer.
See this other SO answer to get some tips on how to use PHPShell.
Another option is to build a little PHP wrapper that you actually run by visiting it in your browser, in the classic PHP way. See this other SO answer for some tips on how to do that.
Bottom line, you should really look at getting Composer running on your server rather than trying to bodge it another way.
Once you have done your composer process on the server, you must remove the PHPShell or composer wrapper you created so that you don't leave any security holes.
Did you tell the composer where your Class 'AAA\Core\Tools' is?
You can even add your own code to the autoloader by adding an autoload field > to composer.json.
{
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {"Acme\\": "src/"}
}
}
Composer is not meant to be used that way (i.e. you shouldn't be manually transferring vendor directories from one environment to another).
As you add dependencies to your project, the composer.json file will contain those dependencies. When you run composer install or update on your localhost, it "locks" the current version of those dependencies for your project and stores them in the composer.lock file. You should be transferring the composer.json and composer.lock files from your development environment to your production environment and then running composer install on your production environment as part of your deployment process. When you run composer install on your production environment, Composer will look at your composer.lock file and install the specified versions of the dependencies in the vendor directory of the production environment.
You may want to review the composer documentation regarding basic usage (https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md) and command line options (https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md) for more details.
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!
The Yii2 preview was recently released and is available on github. I want to take it for a test drive, but the "documentation" so far gets outdated almost instantly since it is still under heavy development. I have tried to follow this guide on creating a simple CRUD app with Yii2, but it fails at the step:
php yiic.php app/create /var/www/yii2
With the error:
Could not open input file: yiic.php
Indicating that there is no file called yiic.php. The only folder within the framework folder is yii (framework/yii), and within that folder there is no file yiic.php, only Yii.php which when called in the command line gives the command list:
The following commands are available:
- asset
- cache
- help
- message
- migrate
Anyone managed to successfully setup a Yii2 app? Care to share how you got it done?
Seems like yiic has been removed for now, there are alternatives though, so read on.
It's all in the early stages, so the following method could break in the coming days/weeks/months. Therefore use with caution.
There are 2 ways to do this now:
Use composer. (I recommend this option.)
Directly copy the contents of yii2/apps/ directory to your apps directory, depending on the type of app you want to try.
There are currently 2 options for type of app - advanced, and basic. Both are in their respective directories within the yii2/apps/ directory, i.e yii2/apps/advanced and yii2/apps/basic.
For basic go through the basic readme.md, and for advanced go through the advanced readme.md.
The directions for using composer are given in the respective readme.md files. Including them here for completeness:
Basic app:
Install composer, if you don't have it.
Use composer to install the app alongwith dependencies(Yii):
php path/to/composer.phar create-project --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-basic my_yii2_trial
Access app from http://localhost/my_yii2_trial/www
Advanced app:
Install composer, if you don't have it.
Use composer to install the app alongwith dependencies(Yii):
php path/to/composer.phar create-project --stability=dev yiisoft/yii2-app-advanced my_yii2_trial
According to readme, after step 2 app should be accessible, but composer was failing(see issue 439). With schmunk's tip, ran the install or install.bat command that gets copied by composer: ./install . Selected development environment (by entering choice 0 in the instructions that show up when running install command). Update: The command has been renamed to init, composer doesn't fail anymore, with fix from Qiang (check the issue 439 for more details).
Access app at: http://localhost/my_yii2_trial/frontend/www or http://localhost/my_yii2_trial/backstage/www
Here's how to copy the directory and get it working:
Basic app:
create your web-accessible directory for the app : my_yii2_trial
copy all files and folders from yii2/apps/basic/ directory to my_yii2_trial/ directory.
modify the my_yii2_trial/www/index.php file to point to the correct path for Yii.php.
For me it was within yii2/framework/yii/
comment the line that tries to include ../vendor/autoload.php file, I couldn't find that file anywhere, so its probably for some future use. it is the autoloader provided by composer.
Access from browser : http://localhost/my_yii2_trial/www
Advanced app:
create your web-accessible directory for the app : my_yii2_trial
copy all files and folders from yii2/apps/advanced/ directory to my_yii2_trial/ directory.
modify the my_yii2_trial/frontend/www/index.php file to point to the correct path for Yii.php. Similarly modify backstage/www/index.php.
comment the line that tries to include ../vendor/autoload.php file in both the index.php of backstage and frontend.
Access app at: http://localhost/my_yii2_trial/frontend/www or http://localhost/my_yii2_trial/backstage/www
Some important links to read more about this: issue 77, issue 108, issue 131, and wiki comment.
I am not sure how composer's autoloader is being used, so can't comment on that. Also in future versions, backstage might be renamed to backend.