laravel services.json not created

Question

Sometimes my services.json is missing after running composer update or php artisan clear-compiled.

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Answer 1

Just run a php artisan serve and stop, this will create the services.json file.

Answer 2

Ensure your web server has access to the files/folders specifically app/storage/meta/services.json if this file/folder is not there create it and add some json to see if you can accesss it in the browser. If forbidden/denied see permissions below:

Check you have these folders

app/storage/views
app/storage/logs
app/storage/sessions

Set everything to be read/write

chmod -R 777 /app/storage

Create services.json and add the following

    {
        "providers": []
    }

After creating the above try loading the project or php artisan serve