Laravel migrations: Class “not found”

Question

I am deploying a Laravel barebone project to Microsoft Azure, but whenever I try to execute php artisan migrate I get the error:

[2015-06-13

Answer 1

For PSR-4 Auto Loader Users (composer.json):

Keep the migrations folder inside classmap array and do not include it inside psr-4 object under autoload head. As migrations' main class Migrator doesn't support namespacing. For example;

"autoload": {
    "classmap": [
        "app/database/migrations"
    ],
    "psr-4": {
        "Acme\\controllers\\": "app/controllers"
    }
}

Then run:

php artisan clear-compiled 
php artisan optimize:clear
composer dump-autoload
php artisan optimize

• First one clears all compiled autoload files.
• Second clears Laravel caches (optional)
• Third builds the autoloader for namespaced classes.
• Fourth optimizes various parts of your Laravel app and builds the autoloader for non-namespaced classes.

From this time on wards, you will not have to do this again and any new migrations will work correctly.