moving Laravel project between computers

Question

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

Answer 1

Copy the project folder and navigate terminal/cmd just run following commands.

Create database and place the same name at .env file in laravel project folder

1. composer install
2. php artisan key:generate  
3. php artisan cache:clear
4. php artisan migrate

UPDATE: If you're getting

Whoops, looks like something went wrong

in app/config/app.php, set debugging as true with:

'debug' => env('APP_DEBUG', true)' 

If you're getting the error

No supported encrypter found. The cipher and/or key length are invalid

for some people it worked to do cp .env.example .env before (2).

Answer 2

https://stackoverflow.com/a/32722141/3982831 Please follow this to resolve your problems. All people forget about permissions on folders.

Answer 3

After you have done as Ademord answer, you might need to use refresh to your WAMP, XAMP or any other development stack you are using. I had the same issue plus changes were not reflecting in the front end. For example new routes in the web.php were not updating.

Answer 4

You would also have to create new storage link, because Laravel uses absolute path inside it.

php artisan storage:link

Answer 5

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