Laravel Artisan make command issue

Question

I am trying to make a middleware using artisan php artisan make:middleware AuthorizedUserOnly but I get ErrorException like below.

file_get_contents(/mysite.com/www/local/composer.json) Failed to open stream no such file or directory.

This is my document root.

-local
  -Laravel application folders
  -artisan
-index.php
-composer.json
.htaccess

I changed my directory structure to work with shared hosting. And It was working fine.

KEY NOTES

1. Other artisan commands work. Like I tried php artisan route:list & php artisan config:cache & php artisan tinker.
2. This directory structure works fine.But as the error says that it is trying to find composer.json in local directory while it is on document root.
3. php artisan make:model command spits the same Exception

What could be the possible issue and solution ?

Answer 1

Solution : I moved my composer.json file to local directory and it worked fine. So new directory structure is

-local
  -Laravel Application Folders
  -composer.json
  -artisan
-index.php
.htaccess

HOW ?

I am not sure about this yet. But this is the possible reason. php artisan make command create some files. So to included these created files into system execute composer dump-autoload. So to run composer it looks for in the same directory where artisan lives which is local directory in my case.

IMPORTANT

I changed laravel default directory structure to successfully run my applicaiton on SHARED HOSTING which laravel DOESNOT RECOMMEND.

We should follow the recommendations made by laravel to avoid any similiar issue. Specially never to mess with default directory structure at least.