Could not open input file artisan

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When trying to create a new laravel project  The following error appears on the CLI   Could not open input file  artisan Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error  I am using the latest version of XAMPP v3 2 1 with PHP 5 5 15 and with mcrypt enabled  made sure of that by issuing the command php -m   And I am running windows 8 1

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The very first thing you have to check in this error is whether you are in the right folder  Direct the command prompt inside the project folder where all the Laravel package is existing

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After creating the project you should move in the folder before issuing the command

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You must must be in your Laravel Project Folder  When creating a new project with laravel new project-name  a folder will be created with your project name as name  You must get in that folder before using any php artisan command like php artisan serve because the artisan file is in that folder

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I think you are not into laravel project directory  please simply go to laravel project directory by using following command   cd projectName

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First  be sure to be in the laravel project folder or else the terminal won t be able to locate the artisan file in the project directory and any subsequent request you pulled to start a server would be rejected   Demo  Let s say our laravel project name is blog and located in C  laravel We then have  C  laravel blog  Where to open terminal  Navigate to the C  laravel blog directory and open the command window  terminal   Input the code below   Laravel terminal code to start server  php artisan serve --host 127 0 0 1

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Try executing it as sudo   sudo laravel new blog  Your file may not have the appropriate permissions  Let us know if it worked

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I checked out an existing Laravel project  which did not have this script  Even a find   -name  artisan  produced no results  The solution turned out to be simple  if a bit weird   curl -L  https   raw githubusercontent com laravel laravel v4 2 11 artisan   gt  artisan   You probably want to choose a tagged version that matches your installed version of Laravel

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-  cd     -  cd project dir  -  php artisan   works fine    in my case  i removed the directory and again clone the repo from the same directory through terminal  then i went one step back and step into my project folder again and the problem was gone

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You cannot use php artisan if you are not inside a laravel project folder    That is why it says  Could not open input file - artisan

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I also had the problem i just installed but forgot to jump the created project folder  So you need to jump your project folder      cd project name   and then serve php artisan command

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If it is your first install of laravel then create another directory folder inside the laravel directory and then move to that empty folder and create another project using the command below   composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel laravel blog   This will create a new project named  blog   then go back to parent laravel directory and now you can run this command   php artisan serve   You will receive the return such as    laravel deployment server started  http   localhost 8000   See attached image

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Just try and execute the command in directory where all laravel code resides  Happened with me too  I was trying to run the command in project s root folder  but the code was in a sub directory

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Another thing to note that if you have a symbolic link from a non public location which hosts your project code to say public html - running php artisan in the symbolic link location  public html  will result in this error  You seem to need to be in the actual project directory for php artisan to work

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What did the trick for me was to do cd src from my project directoy  and then use the php artisan command  since my artisan file was in the src folder  Here is my project structure   project     config     src         app                    artisan     hello there

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Check the directory in CMD console  it should be the same as the project   C     project directory  or D     project directory

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You need to first create Laravel project and if you already have one you need to go to this project dir using cd command in terminal for example cd myproject  Example   C  xampp new htdocs project laravel LaravelProject gt php artisan serve Now you will be able to run any artisan commands  for example running php artisan will display you list of available commands

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This error happens because you didn t install composer on your project   run composer install command in your project path

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I just needed to make artisan executable   chmod  x artisan      and it works without the php prefix then

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Most probably you are not in the right directory

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After installing composer  you need to create the project   composer create-project laravel laravel  path to tour project   You can see the documentation  for your php version the lastest Laravel you can install is 5 0   Now days here is the lastest version and require   php7 0  Here is the documentation

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After struggling with this issue  I found out that you need to find where artisan resides by running sudo find   -name artisan  and from there run the command php artisan

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First create the project from the following link to create larave 7 project  Create Project   Now you need to enter your project folder using the following command    cd myproject   Now try to run artisan command  such as  php artisan   Or it may happen if you didn t install compose  So if you didn t install composer then run composer install and try again artisan command

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You need to first create Laravel project and if you already have one you need to go to this project dir using cd command in terminal for example cd myproject    Now you will be able to run any artisan commands  for example running php artisan will display you list of available commands

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If you re running your Laravel project in Vagrant and have just SSH-ed into the virtual machine  don t forget to cd  vagrant before you try running artisan commands

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if you re in say my-project app somefolder run in terminal cd    two times to get in my-project  folder

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If you project is at  home forge laravel-project   You can properly execute your artisan like this   php  home forge laravel-project artisan

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First go to the Laravel folder then type the artisan commands like if your Laravel app name  Demopro   so open cmd and with the help of cd command go in the Demopro and then use artisan command

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Just make sure you are in the project folder by typing  ls  If not then go to the project folder by typing   cd folder name   for example    cd laravel   And then type  php artisan serve

[php] Could not open input file: artisan

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