How to resolve the error “[ErrorException] file_get_contents(/var/www/laravel/.env): failed to open stream: No such file or directory”?

Question

I\'m using Ubuntu 14.04 on my machine. I installed composer and then laravel in the document root i.e. /var/www

I

Answer 1

You can create it & rerun the command.

# cd /var/www/laravel 
# cp .env.example .env       //renames .env.example to .env
# php artisan key:generate 
Application key set successfully.