How to fix Uncaught exception 'ReflectionException' with message 'Class log does not exist'?

Question

I am facing an issue with composer on Windows Server 20012 R2. I am trying to deploy a website and every time I run composer install or composer update I get the following:

$ composer install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files
> Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postInstall
> php artisan optimize
Script php artisan optimize handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error


  [RuntimeException]
  Error Output:


install [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--dry-run] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-autoloader] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [-v|vv|vvv|--verbose] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--] [<packages>]...

And when I checked the php error log I find the following:

[17-Jul-2016 08:04:58 UTC] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'ReflectionException' with message 'Class log does not exist' in C:\PATH_TO_PROJECT\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php:734
Stack trace:
#0 C:\PATH_TO_PROJECT\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php(734): ReflectionClass->__construct('log')
#1 C:\PATH_TO_PROJECT\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php(629): Illuminate\Container\Container->build('log', Array)
#2 C:\PATH_TO_PROJECT\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Application.php(697): Illuminate\Container\Container->make('log', Array)
#3 C:\PATH_TO_PROJECT\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php(849): Illuminate\Foundation\Application->make('Psr\\Log\\LoggerI...')
#4 C:\PATH_TO_PROJECT\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\ in C:\PATH_TO_PROJECT\vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Container\Container.php on line 734

When I try the same project on an Ubuntu server everything works fin! I have tried every answer i could find on the internet, but nothing worked for me. Any advise on how to solve this? And why it is happening?

The windows server PHP version is 5.6.

composer.json file:

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.5.9",
        "laravel/framework": "5.2.*",
        "intervention/image": "^2.3",
        "greggilbert/recaptcha": "2.*",
        "laravelcollective/html": "5.2.*",
        "vsch/laravel-translation-manager": "*"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "fzaninotto/faker": "~1.4",
        "mockery/mockery": "0.9.*",
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
        "symfony/css-selector": "2.8.*|3.0.*",
        "symfony/dom-crawler": "2.8.*|3.0.*"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "database"
        ],
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/"
        },
         "files": ["app/Http/Helpers/helpers.php"]
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "classmap": [
            "tests/TestCase.php"
        ]
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-root-package-install": [
            "php -r \"copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "php artisan key:generate"
        ],
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postInstall",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist"
    }
}

Answer 1

I was able to fix this issue by removing any space in the values in the .env file e.g.:

MAIL_PORT= 587
MAIL_FROM_NAME=ABC Medical

to:

MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_FROM_NAME=ABCMedical

Or by using quotes:

MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_FROM_NAME="ABC Medical"