Moving Laravel project between computers

laravel-5

I have been working on a laravel5 project on a computer , but now I want to continue on an other, but don't know how 🙁

I'm using wampserver and the project is in the "www" folder, this is the error I'm getting when trying to open the project: " Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request"

Best Answer

Your error message is very vague, so it is hard to pinpoint the cause. I assume you just copy pasted all of the project files

Try these steps:

  1. Make sure you copy all of the project files including the hidden ones(.env).
  2. Prepare your destination computer as in http://laravel.com/docs/
  3. Check you have all the necessary PHP extensions available in php.ini as in above link requirements. Also, watch your PHP version!
  4. Install composer https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
  5. When copied, go to your destination folder and run composer install.

  6. Run php artisan key:generate from the command line.

  7. Run php artisan cache:clear from command line

    http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.commandline.php

  8. Make sure your webserver is serving pages from project/public folder.

If laravel is failing, check the log file to see the cause

your_project/storage/logs/laravel.log
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