Could not open input file: artisan

Question

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

Answer 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.

Answer 2

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'.

Answer 3

If you project is at /home/forge/laravel-project/

You can properly execute your artisan like this

php /home/forge/laravel-project/artisan ...

Answer 4

Most probably you are not in the right directory!

Answer 5

I just needed to make artisan executable.

chmod +x artisan

...and it works without the php prefix then.

Answer 6

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

Answer 7

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.

Answer 8

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

Answer 9

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 ....

Answer 10

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!

Answer 11

This error happens because you didn't install composer on your project.

run composer install command in your project path.

Answer 12

Make Sure your current directory is your project-name

f:demo> php artisan serve

Answer 13

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.

Answer 14

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!
    |__ ...
|__ ...

Answer 15

First create the project from the following link to create larave 7 project: Create Project

Now you need to enter your project folder using the following command:

cd myproject

Now try to run artisan command, such as, php artisan.

Or it may happen if you didn't install compose. So if you didn't install composer then run composer install and try again artisan command.

Answer 16

if you re in say my-project/app/somefolder run in terminal cd .. two times to get in my-project/ folder

Answer 17

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.

Example : C:\xampp new\htdocs\project laravel\LaravelProject>php artisan serve

Now you will be able to run any artisan commands, for example running php artisan will display you list of available commands.

Answer 18

Another thing to note that if you have a symbolic link from a non public location which hosts your project code to say public_html - running php artisan in the symbolic link location (public_html) will result in this error. You seem to need to be in the actual project directory for php artisan to work.

Answer 19

I have the same issue. I am also in the laravel project directory. what works for me is just change the permission of the artisan file.

For linux

chmod 777 artisan

For windows

• use the file property