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phplaravel-5.1
Jack
Jack

Reputation: 446

500 internal server error on fresh Laravel installation

I have just installed Laravel on my host following the official site's step by step guide and created an app called core, using the command

laravel new core

after seeing the success message I uploaded everything to my host, but when i try to access the /core/public folder from the browser i get 500 error on Chrome and nothing at all on firefox. if i run the command 

php artisan list

On SSH inside my core folder i get:

Status: 500 Internal Server Error
Content-type: text/html

Can anyone of you Laravel experts let me know please where did i go wrong? thanks in advance

In the error log i found:

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'class' (T_CLASS), expecting identifier (T_STRING) or variable (T_VARIABLE) or '{' or '$' in ...public_html/laravel/core/public/index.php on line 50

even though i haven't touched any files, line 50 is:

$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);

I checked all the requirement from Laravel and my server meets them all PHP >= 5.5.9 OpenSSL PHP Extension PDO PHP Extension Mbstring PHP Extension Tokenizer PHP Extension

The application key was successfully generated inside .env Also Directories within the storage and the bootstrap/cache directories are writable by the web server with permission 755

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1940

Answers (1)

Ivan
Ivan

Reputation: 10372

Unexpected class for Kernel::class implies to me that you are running a version of PHP lower than 5.5. Laravel only works for 5.5.9+.

My guess is your server provider claims to have PHP 5.5+ support, but the boxes may come with 5.4 installed on them. You will need to contact your server admin to get them to upgrade it if you cannot upgrade it yourself.

PHP 5.5 is required because the ::class syntax was added in that version.

Upvotes: 1

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