Could not open input file: artisan

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.

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'.

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

You can properly execute your artisan like this

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

I just needed to make artisan executable.

chmod +x artisan

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

Most probably you are not in the right directory!

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

Make Sure your current directory is your project-name

f:demo> php artisan serve

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.

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

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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.

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 ....

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!

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

run composer install command in your project path.

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.

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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.

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!
    |__ ...
|__ ...

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

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.

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

For those people that are having the same error on cPanel terminal specifically.

Now you need to enter into your project root or public_html folder in the terminal using the following command:

cd public_html

Now you will be able to run any artisan commands.

php artisan config:clear

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Mainly this may happen because your Laravel project opens on the wrong path. Just open the folder again in your code editor. That's what happened to me when I got the same error.