Enable Whoops error console within Laravel

Question

I'm new to using Laravel 5.0. I use Laravel on my web server and prefer to use it there instead of locally. In tutorials, I've seen that there's a nice debugger (called "Whoops", if I'm not mistaken). It looks like this:

http://postimg.org/image/mig0n9xz5/

However, my error page currently looks like this:

http://postimg.org/image/p1cdol87p/

How can I configure Laravel to use the nicer error console?

Answer 1

Laravel 5.0 does not come with Whoops error handling. Instead it uses the default error display from Symfony. You have the debug key in the /config/app.php set as true so you see the error track (FatalErrorException ... in your image).

Hope it will be added in the next subversions or you could use one of this simple workarounds:

• https://github.com/guidovanbiemen/laravel-whoops
• https://mattstauffer.co/blog/bringing-whoops-back-to-laravel-5