When trying to create a new laravel project, The following error appears on the CLI:
Could not open input file: artisan
Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error
I am using the latest version of XAMPP v3.2.1 with PHP 5.5.15 and with mcrypt enabled (made sure of that by issuing the command php -m). And I am running windows 8.1
You need to first create Laravel project and if you already have one you need to go to this project dir using cd command in terminal for example cd myproject.
Now you will be able to run any artisan commands, for example running php artisan will display you list of available commands.
You cannot use php artisan if you are not inside a laravel project folder.
That is why it says 'Could not open input file - artisan'.
If you project is at /home/forge/laravel-project/
You can properly execute your artisan like this
php /home/forge/laravel-project/artisan ...
First, be sure to be in the laravel project folder or else the terminal won't be able to locate the artisan file in the project directory and any subsequent request you pulled to start a server would be rejected.
Demo
Let's say our laravel project name is blog and located in C:\laravel
We then have: C:\laravel\blog
Where to open terminal
Navigate to the C:\laravel\blog directory and open the command window (terminal). Input the code below:
Laravel terminal code to start server
php artisan serve --host 127.0.0.1
I just needed to make artisan executable.
chmod +x artisan
...and it works without the php prefix then.
You must must be in your Laravel Project Folder
When creating a new project with laravel new project-name, a folder will be created with your project name as name. You must get in that folder before using any php artisan command like php artisan serve because the artisan file is in that folder
I also had the problem i just installed but forgot to jump the created project folder. So you need to jump your project folder.
cd project_name
and then serve php artisan command
Try executing it as sudo.
sudo laravel new blog
Your file may not have the appropriate permissions. Let us know if it worked!
If it is your first install of laravel then create another directory/folder inside the laravel directory and then move to that empty folder and create another project using the command below:
composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog
This will create a new project named "blog", then go back to parent laravel directory and now you can run this command:
php artisan serve
You will receive the return such as:
laravel deployment server started: http://localhost:8000
See attached image
I checked out an existing Laravel project, which did not have this script. Even a find / -name 'artisan' produced no results. The solution turned out to be simple, if a bit weird:
curl -L 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laravel/laravel/v4.2.11/artisan' > artisan
You probably want to choose a tagged version that matches your installed version of Laravel.
If you're running your Laravel project in Vagrant and have just SSH-ed into the virtual machine, don't forget to cd /vagrant before you try running artisan commands!
After struggling with this issue, I found out that you need to find where artisan resides by running sudo find / -name artisan,
and from there run the command php artisan ....
Just make sure you are in the project folder by typing
ls
If not then go to the project folder by typing
cd folder_name
for example:
cd laravel
And then type
php artisan serve
First go to the Laravel folder then type the artisan commands like if your Laravel app name "Demopro"
so open cmd and with the help of cd command go in the Demopro and then use artisan command
After creating the project you should move in the folder before issuing the command
I think you are not into laravel project directory please simply go to laravel project directory by using following command
cd projectName
What did the trick for me was to do cd src from my project directoy, and then use the php artisan command, since my artisan file was in the src folder. Here is my project structure:
project
|__ config
|__ src
|__ app
|__ ..
|__ artisan // hello there!
|__ ...
|__ ...
After installing composer, you need to create the project:
composer create-project laravel/laravel /path/to/tour/project
You can see the documentation, for your php version the lastest Laravel you can install is 5.0.
Now days here is the lastest version and require > php7.0. Here is the documentation.
-> cd ..
-> cd project_dir
-> php artisan ('works fine')
in my case, i removed the directory and again clone the repo from the same directory through terminal. then i went one step back and step into my project folder again and the problem was gone.
First Go to laravel project directory by cd command and write as following........
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26193314/could-not-open-input-file-artisan