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-c

Answer 1

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 2

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

Answer 3

After creating the project you should move in the folder before issuing the command

Answer 4

I just needed to make artisan executable.

chmod +x artisan

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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

Just try and execute the command in directory where all laravel code resides. Happened with me too, I was trying to run the command in project's root folder, but the code was in a sub directory