Why “no such file or directory … autoload.php” when accessing Laravel app?

Question

I am a newbie to Laravel, have been trying to install Laravel, wasted three hours unfortunately didn\'t work. When I access through public directory, I get these errors:

Answer 1

In Windows CMD I faced similar issue and fixed with this command below. After clone a laravel project from my git repository, there was no /vendor directory (logically). This below command creates fresh new /vendor directory and appropriate autoload.php file inside it.

composer update --no-scripts