Getting a 500 Internal Server Error on Laravel 5 Ubuntu 14 04

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I have installed Laravel many times on Windows OS but it never occurred this type of problem  This 500 internal server usually occurs when your  mod rewrite  module is not turned on    However  on Ubuntu 14 04 this problem is giving me a headache  I have installed rewrite mod but it s also not working  I ve given access to all my folders and files inside i e       var www html laravel project   Still it doesn t work  Changed  htaccess as well from original to this        FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteRule   index php  L    I have all the necessary extensions needed for Laravel 5  as well  Is there something left that I didn t do

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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  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 may report as successful  however no key will actually get placed in the  env if the file has no pre-existing APP KEY  line  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

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I faced this issue and fixed by upgrade my php version in apache up to 5 6 x

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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

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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

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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

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if its on a live server try this   lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt   lt IfModule mod negotiation c gt      Options -MultiViews -Indexes  lt  IfModule gt  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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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- gt post URL  to        oauth token              form params    gt                 grant type    gt   password                client id    gt   6                client secret    gt   x3yhgWVqF8sSaMev4JI3yvsVxfbgkfRJmqzlpiMQ                username    gt   this- gt email               password    gt   request- gt input  password                 scope    gt                                 Lets get an array instead of a stdObject so that we can return without errors      response   json decode  response- gt getBody    true        return oq api notify                    auth    gt   response                                             API ACCESS TOKEN                  user    gt   this- gt load   settings   - gt toArray                   201       I just updated the client id and client secret only then saved  Since the passport command gives you two client keys   1  Personal access client  client id  amp  client secret   2  Password grant client  client id  amp  client secret   I used the Password grant client  Hopes this helps someone out there

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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    gt  env  APP DEBUG   false      to   debug    gt  env  APP DEBUG   true     so you can find out what is the reason for your error

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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

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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

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First if there is not  env file in your laravel repository  Copy and paste  env example file and rename it to  env  then open  env file and in database part give your database description  Run   php artisan key generate php artisan cache clear  php artisan config cache php artisan config clear composer dump-autoload php artisan serve

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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

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Make sure  you ve run composer update on your server instance

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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

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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

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Because of no right to write the log s directory  chmod 755 storage -R

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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

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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

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Make sure storage folder with write previlege  chmod o w   work for me like a charm

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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

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Only change the web folder permission through this command   sudo chmod 755 -R your folder

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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

[php] Getting a 500 Internal Server Error on Laravel 5+ Ubuntu 14.04

Make sure a .env file, containing an APP_KEY, exists in root.

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