Laravel PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required ... bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

Question

I'm trying to deploy a website built on Laravel to an amazon ec2 micro instance. I've cloned the project and then ran composer install with no problems. However when I view it in the browser I get the error:

Error in exception handler..

In the error logs I can see the following error:

[Wed Nov 12 12:12:47.550414 2014] [:error] [pid 21572] [client x.x.x.x:x] PHP Fatal
error:  require(): Failed opening required '/home/production/public_html/kcnr-tv/bootstrap
/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in
 /home/production/public_html/kcnr-tv/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17

I've googled this problem and a few people seem to have this issue but in almost all cases they have forgotten to run composer install.

I've increased the PHP memory limit to 1GB and still no luck. There doesn't appear to be an issue with installing dependencies as far as I can see as they are all in the vendor folder after composer has finished.

Any help with this would be great as I'm all out of ideas to what this could be.

Answer 1

try this command

composer install --no-script

this will skip the composer scripts execution as vendor files are still missing.

Answer 2

I fixed it with the following solution: Error in exception handler. - Laravel.

The app/storage permissions needed updating.