Laravel blank white screen

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My laravel site was working before   I recently upgraded to Apache 2 4 and PHP 5 5 7   Now I m getting a white blank screen when I go to laravel mydomain com  nothing in apache error logs  routes and etc  should be fine as it worked before    htaccess is loading as I get a 500 when I insert an invalid line to  var sites laravel public  htaccess   Heres my  htaccess     cat  var sites laravel public  htaccess  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt       lt IfModule mod negotiation c gt      Options -MultiViews  lt  IfModule gt   RewriteEngine On    Redirect Trailing Slashes    RewriteRule           1  L R 301     Handle Front Controller    RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteRule   index php  L      Heres my virtual host directive   DocumentRoot   var sites laravel public  ServerName laravel mydomain com  lt Directory   var sites laravel public  gt      AllowOverride All     allow from all     Options  Indexes     Require all granted  lt  Directory gt    And apachectl -S     usr local apache2 bin apachectl -S VirtualHost configuration                         is a NameVirtualHost      default server mydomain com   usr local apache2 conf extra httpd-vhosts conf 25       port   namevhost mydomain com   usr local apache2 conf extra httpd-vhosts conf 25       port   namevhost laravel mydomain com   usr local apache2 conf extra httpd-     vhosts conf 34  ServerRoot    usr local apache2  Main DocumentRoot    var www  Main ErrorLog    usr local apache2 logs error log  Mutex rewrite-map  using defaults Mutex default  dir   usr local apache2 logs   mechanism default PidFile    usr local apache2 logs httpd pid  Define  DUMP VHOSTS Define  DUMP RUN CFG User  name  daemon  id 1 not used Group  name  daemon  id 1 not used

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Make sure that there are no typos in your  env file   This was the cause of a blank screen with me  Nothing got logged to screen nor logfiles or nginx logs   Just a blank screen

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It shows the problem it was the White spaces in App Name of  env file

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Try this  in the public index php page  error reporting E ALL   ini set  error reporting   E ALL   ini set  display errors   1

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Another thing that may cause the WSOD is missing the  return  keyword  as in   return View  make  yourview     as opposed to   View  make  yourview

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In my case  restarting apache fixed the problem  for Ubuntu   Debian   sudo service apache2 restart

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Blank screen also happens when your Laravel app tries to display too much information and PHP limits kick in  for example displaying tens of thousands of database records on a single page   The worst part is  you won t see any errors in the Laravel logs  You probably won t see any errors in the PHP FPM logs as well  You might find errors in your http server logs  for example nginx throws something like FastCGI sent in stderr   PHP message  PHP Fatal error   Allowed memory size of XXX bytes exhausted   Short tip  add - gt limit 1000  where 1000 is your limit  on your query object

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Sometimes in route php you may have  Route  get    id     Controller show      written before  Route  get   add    Controller add      It can be empty method Controller  show   when you begin to develop your controller from scratch  In this case you will get empty blank page when requesting  add url  It happens because the request was handled by   id  route  and its method returns nothing   Just try to place  add route before   id

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There might be a lot of reasons behind the blank screen without errors  I have faced this problem many times whenever I want to upload laravel project in shared hosting   Reason  Incorrect PHP Version  In my case  issue was because of incorrect php version  I had php 7 1 version in local computer where as in shared hosting cpanel  there was php 5 6 version  Switching up the version from 5 6 to 7 1 worked for me   You can change php version in cpanel from multiphp manager available in cpanel home page

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in my case  the BLANK WHITE SCREEN issue was as simple as a typo or wrong character on the env file  I was implementing socialite  so when I was setting up the  env credentials for Google  like this   G  CLIENT ID   Your G  Client ID G  CLIENT SECRET   Your G  Client secret G  REDIRECT    http   localhost 8000 callback google    But  the  env file can t use the     sign  so I have to make this correction   GOOGLE CLIENT ID   Your G  Client ID GOOGLE CLIENT SECRET   Your G  Client secret GOOGLE REDIRECT    http   localhost 8000 callback google    I hope this help you find a dumb error

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This changes works for my localhost Ubuntu server 14 xx setting    Apply all permission to the laravel 5 x site folders        sudo chmod -R 777 mysite   Also made changes on site-available httpd setting Apache2 settings   Add settings   Options  Indexes  FollowSymLinks  MultiViews Require all granted

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An update to fideloper s answer for Laravel 5 and its new file structure is     sudo chmod -R o w storage

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I have some issues to setup it in a Vagrant machine  Whats really works for me was execute a   chmod -R o w app storage    from inside the Vagrant machine   Reference  https   laracasts com lessons vagrant-and-laravel

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I was also getting same error when I start first time on laravel   Ubuntu 14 04 I just right click on bootstrap and storage folder     properties    permission   Others Access     change it to  Create and delete files  Change permission for enclosed files   Thank you

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Strange for me  but in my case I had to clear the laravel s cache to solve the issue

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The following steps solved blank white screen problem on my Laravel 5    Go to your Laravel root folder Give write permission to bootstrap cache and storage directories      sudo chmod -R 777 bootstrap cache storage    Rename  env example to  env Generate application key with the following command in terminal command-prompt from Laravel root        php artisan key generate   This will generate the encryption key and update the value of APP KEY in  env file  This should solve the problem    If the problem still exists  then update config app php with the new key generated from the above artisan key generate command       key    gt  env  APP KEY    SomeRandomString         to       key    gt  env  APP KEY    KEY GENERATED FROM ABOVE COMMAND

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I hit this problem when I tried to run a Laravel 5 8 app on my server  uploading from local development using Vagrant Homestead  After a while I figured out that the dev subdomain on the live server I was running was somehow set to PHP 5 6   cPanel   MultiPHP Manager   Set to PHP 7 2  fixed this for me  Hope this might help someone

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I was struggling with a similar issue on a CentOS server  Using php artisan serv and accessing it through port 8000 on the local machine worked fine but could not get my remote machines to load a particular view  I could return strings fine  and some views were loading  Chased my tail on permissions for a while before I finally realized it was an SELinux issue  I just set it from enforce to permissive and it worked  Hope that helps someone else out there that may be encountering the same issue    setenforce permissive

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Running this command solved it for me   php artisan view clear   I guess a blank error page was some how cached  Had to clear the caches

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I have also one more option why blank page issue may occur  If you are on production mode and if you cached your config files by php artisan  config cache   try to delete cache file executing   php artisan config clear   or delete it manualy  bootstrap cache config php

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In addition to Permission problems in storage and cache folder and php version issues  there could be another reasons to display blank page without any error message   For example  I had a redeclare error message without any log and with blank white page  There was a conflict between my own helper function and a vendor function   I suggest as a starting point  run artisan commands  for example   php artisan cache clear   If there was a problem  it will prompted in terminal and you ve got a Clue and you can google for the solution

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When I was new to Linux I usually found this error with my Laravel Project  White errors means error  It may have some permission issue or error   You just have to follow two steps  and will work like champ      1  Give the permission  Run these command from root directory of your project   a  sudo chmod 777 -R storage  b  sudo chmod bootstrap cache    2  If you cloned the project or pulled from github then run  composer install    3  Configure your  env file properly  and your project will work

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use this  htaccess to solve  Options  ExecCGI addhandler x-httpd-php5-cgi  php Options -MultiViews DirectoryIndex index php  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt   lt IfModule mod negotiation c gt      Options -MultiViews -Indexes  lt  IfModule gt  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  RewriteRule        index php   1  L   lt  IfModule gt

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for anyone who get blank page even after making storage accessible for displaying errors put these two lines at first lines of public index php to see what is happening at least  for me this error was there  Class  PDO  not found in  var www     config database php on line 16   error reporting E ALL   ini set  display errors   1

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Apache  Does this answer describe or help your situation  Upgrading to Apache 2 4 come with some changes in Apache configuration    Laravel  Are you checking Laravel s logs or Apache s logs   Since upgrading to Laravel 4 1  I ve had white screen  errors   WSOD  when the application could not write to the log location  I ve always solved this by making the app storage directory writable by Apache  either group writable to  www-data    apache  or world-writable - that depends on your server setup   Web Server User  On Ubuntu Debian servers  your PHP may be running as user  www-data   On CentOS RedHat Fedora servers  you PHP may be running as user  apache    Make sure your files are owned by the user that is running PHP     Debian Ubuntu   sudo chown -R www-data  path to laravel files    CentOS RedHat Fedora   sudo chown -R apache  path to laravel files      Note that you might not be running as user www-data or apache  It depends on your hosting and setup    Laravel 4    Group Writable  Group  User Writable    sudo chmod -R gu w app storage    World-writable  Group  User  Other Writable    sudo chmod -R guo w app storage   Laravel 5   including 6     Group Writable  Group  User Writable    sudo chmod -R gu w storage    World-writable  Group  User  Other Writable    sudo chmod -R guo w storage          The bootstrap cache directory may need writing to also       Group Writable  Group  User Writable    sudo chmod -R gu w bootstrap cache    World-writable  Group  User  Other Writable    sudo chmod -R guo w bootstrap cache

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I have same issue  I already change chmod folder for Storage folder  fill database settings in  env  but didn t fix the problem  I used Laravel 5 5 and I used PHP 5 6  to fix it I went to  cpanel- PHP Selector  and I changed to PHP 7 1 And the issue is done

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On normal cases errors should be logged Unless  Script can t write to log file   check it s path permissions   Or error occurred on higher level check app server logs like Appache    Nginx  Or it s resources limits  Like PHP ini settings  memory limit max input time max execution time   Or OS limit s and so on

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Sometimes it s because laravel 5 1 require PHP    5 5 9  Update php will solve the problem

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Other problem with the same behavior is use Laravel 3 with PHP 5 5 x  You have to change some laravel function s name  yield   because is a reserved word in php 5 5

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Reason can be Middleware if you forget to put following code to the end of handle function  return  next  request

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I also faced same issue after doing composer update  I tried installing composer required monolog monolog too but didn t work   Then I removed the  vendor directory and ran composer install and worked as per normal    basically it must have reverted my monolog and other stable packages version back to previous  so better not to composer update  what I noticed comparing both the  vendor folders and found those classes files under  vendor monolog monolog src Handler were missing after composer updated

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Facing the blank screen in Laravel 5 8  Every thing seems fine with both storage and bootstrap folder given 777 rights  On   php artisan cache clear   It shows the problem it was the White spaces in App Name of  env file

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Got this from the Laravel forums  but if you recently upgraded Laravel versions AND PHP versions AND are running nginx  make sure you have changed your nginx configuration file to reflect the new PHP version  For instance   In your nginx site config file  here   etc nginx sites-available   change  fastcgi pass unix  var run php5-fpm sock   to  fastcgi pass unix  var run php php5 6-fpm sock

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In my case   I have installed laravel many times  and I am sure that the folder write permission has been correctly given   Like most of the answers above    sudo chmod 777 -R storage bootstrap   The mistake is that my nginx configuration comes from the official documentation   I only modified the domain name after copying  then I got a blank page  I tried restarting nginx and php-fpm but not work for me   Finally  I added this line configuration to solve the problem   location     php           same as documentation          fastcgi param SCRIPT FILENAME  document root fastcgi script name      I hope I can help others

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