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Laravel Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

After creating a fresh Laraver project using:

laravel new [project_name]

At first it ran, but after running it for the second time I got an error saying:

Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0

Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required 'D:[path]\server.php' (include_path='C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in Unknown on line 0

Solution

  • The problem was that the initial directory included server.php file and the second time around it was missing.

    For me this was a weird interaction with Avast as it perceived the file as malicious. Check Avast's Virus chest to recover the file to avoid further issues.

    Maybe this will save time for somebody.