Why command “php artisan serve” not working

Question

I started Laravel at this path:

C:\\Users\\Mad\\Work\\trunk\\product\\backend\\v1.2.1\\laravel

but it is not working, it is not starting. <

Answer 1

Just wanted to add to Jayhuan's answer above:

Laravel does the same thing behind the scenes, you can see the code here (look in serverCommand).

So to serve locally you would do: php artisan serve --host mysite.com --port 8000

Answer 2

try to execute the command : composer update.
it will update and export all the directorys/files that u need.
because sometimes when u clone/download a repository from github .. there are pretty much directorys/files that are not present (not exportable .. present in .gitignor).
then try : php artisan serve. it works for me

Answer 3

I think you also check your path which you use in the composer like C:\Users\HP> example:if your parent folder is blog then use C:\Users\HP> cd blog/ C:\Users\HP>blog> php artisan serve

Answer 4

try

php -S localhost:8000 -t public/

source : http://allbitsnbytes.com/posts/php-artisan-serve-not-working/

Answer 5

Your missing some Server Requirements

See the Laravel site for requirements. Laravel Documentation
The Laravel framework has a few system requirements.

If you are not using Homestead, you will need to make sure your server meets the following requirements:

PHP >= 7.1.3
BCMath PHP Extension
Ctype PHP Extension
JSON PHP Extension
Mbstring PHP Extension
OpenSSL PHP Extension
PDO PHP Extension
Tokenizer PHP Extension
XML PHP Extension

To see a list of your extensions... From the command line:
$ php -m

I was missing BCMath and Tokenizer so I installed them with:
$ sudo apt-get install php-bcmath
$ sudo apt-get install php-tokenizer

Now you can use $ php artisan serve

Answer 6

try only this

php -S localhost:8000