I have a Laravel/Homestead project that is finally working locally. Now I'm trying to port it over to HostGator and can't get it running due to titled error. I've tried all the suggested solutions to no avail. Including:
composer require laravel/laravel
composer dump-autoload
composer install --no-scripts
composer update
composer update --no-scripts
Nothing works. Same error. If this is a clue, I also tried
php artisan clear-compiled
and get response of
Could not open input file: artisan
I'm about ready to give up on Laravel/Homestead. I've spent countless hours on this framework with nothing but problems to show for it. Would not recommend it to anybody.
You can see the error yourself here: http://www.tekknow.net/MedAverter/medaverter/
Any suggestions before I throw in the towel?
The problem turned out to be two issues. 1. The wrong version of PHP was running. If I ssh'ed into the hostgator server and did
php -v
It showed PHP 5.6.30 even though I had selected Php 7.1 in the cPanel PHP Selector. If I did
tekknow.net/phpinfo.php
it would say I was using 7.1. Called up HostGator tech support and they were able to change it to PHP 7.3.13.
Now if I do:
php artisan clear cache
I no longer get the error about
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '?' in /home1/sl1k7f3j/public_html/medaverter/bootstrap/app.php on line 15
which was an error caused by a version of php that doesn't support the ?? operator.
The second problem was a lack of memory issue. If I did
composer update It would start to work but would fail in about 30 seconds with
Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 709623808) (tried to allocate 34187559 bytes) in phar:///opt/cpanel/composer/bin/composer/src/Composer/Json/JsonFile.php on line 270
The HostGator tech rep could not figure out why that was happening but I got around that issue by manually uploading my local vendor folder to the host server.
Now when I go to http://tekknow.net/medaverter/ it works!