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php artisan horizon:install returns "Could not open input file: artisan"

I've seen answers for this question, but I'm still really confused, because answers say I need to be in my Laravel's project folder, which I thought I had created.

I'm trying to run the command php

php artisan horizon:install

This is the second step in the Laravel installation guide found here: https://laravel.com/docs/7.x/horizon#installation

My directory structure looks like this in my documents folder in Mac OS:

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I've tried running the command in the RetimeWeb, vendor, bin, laravel and horizon folders. What am I doing wrong here? Where is an artisan folder supposed to be?

Solution

  • Laravel Horizon is dashboard for managing queues (jobs) in Laravel that supposed to be installed on top of Laravel project.

    Based on your directory structure you installed Horizon from composer alone. Now you are trying to run command "php artisan horizon:install" but artisan is a tool from Laravel. "horizon:install" supposed to copy all assets, configs etc to Laravel project - but again, you do not have any so there is not even where to copy it.

    To summary.

    1. Install Laravel.
    2. Install Laravel Horizon.