Getting a 500 Internal Server Error (require() failed opening required path) on Laravel 5+ Ubuntu 14.04
PhpApache.HtaccessUbuntuMod RewritePhp Problem Overview
I have installed Laravel many times on Windows OS but never had this problem.
However, on Ubuntu 14.04 I am getting a 500 Internal Server Error, and messages like this in my logs:
> [Wed Jul 22 10:20:19.569063 2015] [:error] [pid 1376] [client 127.0.0.1:52636] PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/var/www/html/laravel_blog/../bootstrap/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/html/laravel_blog/index.php on line 22
Previously I've had problems when mod_rewrite was not installed or set up properly, but I have installed it and it is not working. Changed .htaccess as well from original to this.
+FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
I've given access to all my folders and files inside i.e.
> /var/www/html/laravel_project
I have all the necessary extensions needed for Laravel 5+ as well. Is there something left that I didn't do?
Php Solutions
Solution 1 - Php
Finally Overcame the problem
- It was not the .htaccess file that was the problem nor the index.php. The problem was on accessing the files and requiring permissions.
For solving the problem i ran the following commands through terminal.
sudo chmod -R 755 laravel_blog
and then type below to allow laravel to write file to storage folder
chmod -R o+w laravel_blog/storage
This two commands solved the problem.
Solution 2 - Php
Create the .env file and also run :
php artisan key:generate
This worked for me after pulling a git project.
After creating .env file and generating the key, run the code below:
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
Solution 3 - Php
After installing run below command
sudo chmod 755 -R laravel
chmod -R o+w laravel/storage
here "laravel" is the name of directory where laravel installed
Solution 4 - Php
Try to check if you have .env
file.
Mostly this thing can cause something like that. Try to create a file then copy everything from .env.example
, paste it to your created file and name it .env
. or jsut simply rename the .env.example
file to .env
and run php artisan key:generate
Solution 5 - Php
Make sure a .env file, containing an APP_KEY, exists in root.
What should be in the .env hasn't been explicitly stated in other solutions, and thought I'd boil it down to the sentence above.
This fixed my 500 error on a fresh install of Laravel.
Steps:
- Create a .env file in root (e.g.
touch .env
) - Make sure it contains at least one line:
APP_KEY=
- Generate an app key in terminal:
php artisan key:generate
More .env paramaters:
As a reference, here's the official .env with useful baseline parameters. Copy-paste what you need:
https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/.env.example
Notes:
-
My particular installation didn't include any .env whatsoever (example or otherwise)
-
Simply having a blank .env does not work.
-
A .env containing parameters, but no
APP_KEY
parameter, does not work.
Bug?: When generating an app key in terminal, it seems to falsely report success, however no key will actually get placed in the .env if the file is missing a line starting with APP_KEY=
.
Solution 6 - Php
I fixed with this Command:
rm -rf app/storage/logs/laravel.logs
chmod -R 777 app/storage,
php artisan cache:clear,
php artisan dump-autoload OR composer dump-autoload
Than restart a server eather XAMPP ore another one and that should be working.
Solution 7 - Php
I have faced a similar error. I checked the log in /var/log/apache2/error.log
and found an UnexpectedValueException
I changed the owner to my apache user of the storage folder under the project dir.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data ./storage
In my case apache2 process owner is www-data
, so change this to yours, this can be found in apache2 config file. Hope this is useful to you.
Solution 8 - Php
May another solution to this problem:
Install the required packages by running the composer command from the the root of the project:
sudo composer install
UPDATE:
- You should not run this command on a production server, but some issues with composer can be resolved with this on local envs.
EDIT:
- take a look at https://getcomposer.org/doc/faqs/how-to-install-untrusted-packages-safely.md to see why running composer install as root is not a good idea
- If you need to run it as root, provide the following flags, to block third-party code from executing durin the install --no-plugins --no-scripts
Solution 9 - Php
I read all the comments and suggestions. 500 - HTTP ERROR CODE represents internal server error.
Reasons for this error:
- These mainly cause due to permission issues
- Environment variables not found or
.env
file not found on your root directory - PHP extensions problem
- Database problem
Fix:
- Set the correct permissions:
- Run these commands (Ubuntu/Debian)
find /path/to/your/root/dir/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find /path/to/your/root/dir/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
chown -R www-data:www-data /path/to/your/root/dir/
chgrp -R www-data storage bootstrap/cache
chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache
- If .env file doesn't exist, create one by
touch .env
and paste your environment variables and then run
php artisan key:generate
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
composer dump-autoload
- Check your php.ini file and uncomment the extensions you need (In some case you have to install the extension by running this command
apt-get install php7.2-[extension-name]
- Check your database credentials and values in
.env
file. And grant permissions to the database user for that database.
These are some common problem you likely going to face when deploying your laravel app and once you start getting all these commands, I suggest you to make a script which will save your time.
Solution 10 - Php
Create .env
file with the below cmd command:
cp .env-example .env
Then generate a key for your project:
php artisan key:generate
After that clear your caches using the below commands:
//---Delete Configuration Cahce
php artisan config:cache
//---Clear Application Cache
php artisan cache:clear
Solution 11 - Php
I had PHP 7.0 and PHP 7.1 installed and I was using PHP 7.1 on command line and PHP 7.0 was enabled on Apache, that messy can bring problems when you are using Laravel Framework and localhost Apache2 with laravel.
Check your composer file first to see your PHP version.
"php": "^7.1.3",
"laravel/framework": "5.6.*",
Check your currently php version on command line
php -v
Check your currently php version enabled on Apache, I did using browser.
http://localhost
If it's not the same disable the current version and enable the newest one.
sudo a2dismod php7.2
sudo a2enmod php7.1
sudo service apache2 restart
After that change folder permissions
sudo chmod 755 -R blog
for storage folder
chmod -R o+w blog/storage
Solution 12 - Php
A frequent issue when using git:
Laravel's .gitignore ignores the .env file which when missing generates this error
Solved this by manually adding an .env file on the server or uploading it through FTP
Solution 13 - Php
First, if there is not .env
file in your Laravel repository. Copy the .env.example
file using the following cmd command cp .env.example .env
and open .env
file and apply your configuration if needed.
Run these commands:
//---Generate Key in your project
php artisan key:generate
//---Flush the application cache
php artisan cache:clear
//---Remove the configuration cache file
php artisan config:cache
php artisan config:clear
//---Regenerates the list of all classes that need to be included in the project
composer dump-autoload
//---Restart your Server
php artisan serve
Solution 14 - Php
Sometimes there is problem with php version. We need to change php version from server. Just write down below string in .htaccess file:
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .php
Solution 15 - Php
First allow all permissions for your project folder (let say it's called laravel), for the storage subfolder and its logs subsubfolder and for the vendor subfolder (laravel/storage, laravel/storage/logs and laravel/vendor).
Then check if your have .env file - if not you can run:
$ mv .env.example .env
to rename your build-in .env.example to the needed .env.
Otherwise turn on the debug mode - open .env and set
APP_DEBUG=true
and open laravel/config/app.php and change
'debug' => env('APP_DEBUG', false),
to
'debug' => env('APP_DEBUG', true),
so you can find out what is the reason for your error.
Solution 16 - Php
Run these two commands in the directory where Laravel is installed:
sudo chmod 755 -R DIRECTORY_NAME
chmod -R o+w DIRECTORY_NAME/storage
Then clear the cache and dump the auto load:
php artisan cache:clear
composer dump-autoload
Solution 17 - Php
I have faced this problem many times. Try one of these steps it helped me a lot. Maybe it will also help you.
- First of all check your file permissions.
- To fix file permissions sudo chmod 755 -R your_project
- Then chmod -R o+w your_project/storage to write file to storage folder.
- php artisan cache:clear
composer dump-autoload - php artisan key:generate
- Then check server requirements as per the laravel requirement.
- Many times you got this error because of the php version. Try changing your php version in cpanel.
- Then configure your .htaccess file properly
Solution 18 - Php
If you use vagrant, try this:
First remove config.php in current/vendor.
Run these command:
php artisan config:clear
php artisan clear-compiled
php artisan optimize
NOT RUN php artisan config:cache.
Hope this help.
Solution 19 - Php
if its on a live server try this
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews -Indexes
</IfModule>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
# Handle Authorization Header
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} .
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
# Redirect Trailing Slashes If Not A Folder...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [L,R=301]
# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
then also make sure that the php version in your composer.json is the same as that of your server.
Check your php version in your terminal using php -v
Solution 20 - Php
Run these two commands on root of laravel
find * -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0755 # for directories
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0644 # for files
Solution 21 - Php
I have a similar issue with a share Host. I was having 500 error. I just fixed by checking the Laravel version and PHP version. The error was because Laravel 5.6 doesn't run on PHP 7.0.x Once I know this I just reconfigure the project to Laravel 5.5 that is compatible with PHP 7.0.x now everything is right. Another reason I have issues sometimes is the FTP I get corrupted Files and have to upload the project more than once. Hope this help in the future I don't found so many information in this topic.
Solution 22 - Php
For those of you who like me still got errors after trying all the other answers :
Check the version of php apache uses, latest laravel only works with php7.1. So you have to :
sudo a2dismod php[yourversion]
sudo a2enmod php7.1
sudo systemctl restart apache2
hope this helps
Solution 23 - Php
Make sure, you've run composer update
on your server instance.
Solution 24 - Php
I fixed this problem by this commands:
mv .env.example .env
php artisan cache:clear
composer dump-autoload
php artisan key:generate
then
php artisan serve
Solution 25 - Php
copy this
coposer install
mv .env.example .env
php artisan cache:clear
composer dump-autoload
php artisan key:generate
and past in your terminal
I had this problem ...
Solution 26 - Php
According to the logs :
[06-Feb-2016 22:38:48 Europe/Berlin] PHP Warning: require(/Users/tomsihap/Documents/Development/mamp/partie_1_exo/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/tomsihap/Documents/Development/mamp/partie_1_exo/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
[06-Feb-2016 22:38:48 Europe/Berlin] PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/Users/tomsihap/Documents/Development/mamp/partie_1_exo/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.0/lib/php') in /Users/tomsihap/Documents/Development/mamp/partie_1_exo/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
[06-Feb-2016 22:43:37 Europe/Berlin] PHP Warning: require(/Users/tomsihap/Documents/Development/mamp/partie_1_exo/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/tomsihap/Documents/Development/mamp/partie_1_exo/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
[06-Feb-2016 22:43:37 Europe/Berlin] PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/Users/tomsihap/Documents/Development/mamp/partie_1_exo/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.0.0/lib/php') in /Users/tomsihap/Documents/Development/mamp/partie_1_exo/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
There are some failures opening files into the /vendor folder.
By installing and updating via composer, I was able to finally solve the issue.
sudo composer install
sudo composer update
Solution 27 - Php
Make sure storage folder with write previlege (chmod o+w), work for me like a charm.
Solution 28 - Php
Because of no right to write the log's directory.
chmod 755 storage -R
Solution 29 - Php
I faced this issue and fixed by upgrade my php version in apache up to 5.6.x
Solution 30 - Php
Only change the web folder permission through this command:
sudo chmod 755 -R your_folder
Solution 31 - Php
I just ran the following command:
php artisan passport:install
I was using passport to run my application completely based on API's and Vue.js. Laravel worked fine but everytime i tried to login via my API i would get the error. After running the command and updating the client_id and client_secret on my Laravel files then pushed the new updates to the live server, the problem was solved. In my user model i have a script as follows:
public function generateToken($request)
{
$http = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $http->post(URL::to('/').'/oauth/token', [
'form_params' => [
'grant_type' => 'password',
'client_id' => '6',
'client_secret' => 'x3yhgWVqF8sSaMev4JI3yvsVxfbgkfRJmqzlpiMQ',
'username' => $this->email,
'password' => $request->input('password'),
'scope' => '',
],
]);
// Lets get an array instead of a stdObject so that we can return without errors
$response = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);
return oq_api_notify([
'auth' => $response, // API ACCESS TOKEN
'user' => $this->load(['settings'])->toArray(),
], 201);
}
I just updated the client_id and client_secret only then saved. Since the passport command gives you two client keys:
-
Personal access client (client_id & client_secret)
-
Password grant client (client_id & client_secret)
I used the Password grant client. Hopes this helps someone out there :)
Solution 32 - Php
If you're facing this issue on the live server then the best way is to add the below-mentioned routes on the web.php file and then run all the routes through URL.
Most of the time this error is because of caches issues and once you clear all the caches - then this error will be solved and you can see to updates codes result.
//Clear Cache facade value:
Route::get('/clear-cache', function() {
$exitCode = Artisan::call('cache:clear');
return '<h1>Cache facade value cleared</h1>';
});
//Clear Route cache:
Route::get('/route-clear', function() {
$exitCode = Artisan::call('route:clear');
return '<h1>Route cache cleared</h1>';
});
//Clear View cache:
Route::get('/view-clear', function() {
$exitCode = Artisan::call('view:clear');
return '<h1>View cache cleared</h1>';
});
//Clear Config cache:
Route::get('/config-clear', function() {
$exitCode = Artisan::call('config:clear');
return '<h1>Config cleared</h1>';
});
Solution 33 - Php
Check if your .env file is present or not in file structure. if not, follow the procedures:
- run command
cp .env.example .env
from projects root directory. - run command
php artisan key:generate
- refresh the browser.
Thanks.