Reputation: 4735

Could not open input file: artisan

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

Upvotes: 400

Answers (25)

Anji

Reputation: 597

In my case, I was trying to run artisan with wrong user. ex: the project was belonging to fooo user but I was baaar user when I run the command. Simply changing the user or run with other user fix the problem.

Change to other user

sudo su - fooo
# then run the command
php artisan ...

Run with other user

sudo su - fooo php artisan ...

Upvotes: 1

Ramin

Reputation: 391

I had the same issue. I have fixed it by doing the following steps:

removed vendor folder rm -Rf vendor
tried to install the composer packages again: composer install --no-dev
ran the required php artisan command again

Worked!

Upvotes: 1

Elmar

Reputation: 4445

None of the solution worked for me. You can use these commands for solving the issue:

Remove bootstrap/cache/config.php file then:

composer dumpautoload
composer update

Remove vendor folder then:

composer install

If still not solved, your last option maybe to create new Laravel project: With new folder:

composer create-project --force laravel/laravel my-joyful-project

Without new folder:

composer create-project --force laravel/laravel .

It should solve the issue. If still no, make sure you do not have older laravel version. And lastly, make sure that it is Laravel project you are working on, not Silverstripe. They are both using composer and have similar configuration files. Easy to mess up or maybe not :)

Upvotes: 1

iAmBorgy

Reputation: 93

Based on my experience, you must check if the artisan file is in your project folder. I had the same error, and when I check the artisan, it was not present. You can easily copy any artisan file from any existing or already working project and paste it into your new project.

Or you may download it here: artisan file

Upvotes: 1

Ravindu Abeywardane

Reputation: 125

Mainly this may happen because your Laravel project opens on the wrong path. Just open the folder again in your code editor. That's what happened to me when I got the same error.

Upvotes: 1

Edwinfad

Reputation: 535

For those people that are having the same error on cPanel terminal specifically.

Now you need to enter into your project root or public_html folder in the terminal using the following command:

cd public_html

Now you will be able to run any artisan commands.

php artisan config:clear

Upvotes: 0

Happy Patel

Reputation: 1688

Make Sure your current directory is your project-name

for example your project name is demo and location is f:/demo

f:demo> php artisan serve

Upvotes: 14

Pranay kumar

Reputation: 2197

I have the same issue. I am also in the laravel project directory. what works for me is just change the permission of the artisan file.

For linux

chmod 777 artisan

For windows

use the file property

Upvotes: -1

SupaMonkey

Reputation: 884

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.

Upvotes: 0

Aslam Khan

Reputation: 378

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>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.

Upvotes: 1

CodeToLife

Reputation: 4171

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

Upvotes: 0

Md Riadul Islam

Reputation: 1471

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.

Upvotes: 6

Ali Lashini

Reputation: 429

This error happens because you didn't install composer on your project.

run composer install command in your project path.

Upvotes: 1

zaffar

Reputation: 747

Most probably you are not in the right directory!

Upvotes: 19

Yevgeniy Afanasyev

Reputation: 41410

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'.

Upvotes: 193

Aleksandar

Reputation: 4154

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!
    |__ ...
|__ ...

Upvotes: 0

Talan

Reputation: 81

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.

Upvotes: 0

John Zenith

Reputation: 502

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

Upvotes: 11

soBusted

Reputation: 305

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 ....

Upvotes: 2

A.Aleem11

Reputation: 1974

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

Upvotes: 5

TeeJay

Reputation: 1613

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!

Upvotes: 3

code-8

Reputation: 58760

If you project is at /home/forge/laravel-project/

You can properly execute your artisan like this

php /home/forge/laravel-project/artisan ...

Upvotes: 33

DavidM

Reputation: 1437

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' > artisan

You probably want to choose a tagged version that matches your installed version of Laravel.

Upvotes: 4

Kevin Carmody

Reputation: 2319

I just needed to make artisan executable.

chmod +x artisan

...and it works without the php prefix then.

Upvotes: 16

Marcin Nabiałek

Reputation: 111889

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.

Upvotes: 523

Could not open input file: artisan

Answers (25)

Change to other user

Run with other user

Make Sure your current directory is your project-name

Demo

Where to open terminal

Laravel terminal code to start server

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