ReflectionException: Class ClassName does not exist - Laravel

Question

As soon, I am typing php artisan db:seed command.

I\'m getting Error Like:

[ReflectionException]
Clas

Answer 1

Check file/folder permissions

I struggled with this error today, and no amount of cache, config, autoload clears did anything to help. To add to the confusion, the error was thrown if initiated by a web request, but accessing the class in tinker worked fine.

After checking for typo's, syntax errors, and incorrect namespaces, I ended up discovering it was a file permission issue. The folder and file containing my class did not have appropriate permissions so it was throwing this error. The incorrect permission level I had was 771 (folder) and 660 (file), by changing it to 775 and 664 I was able to get it working.

My understanding of the different behaviors is that when running from the command line it was reading the file as my user (which had all the permissions it needed), but when initiated from the web it uses the "other" permission group which could do nothing.