Category: Laravel

Today we are getting this error on a Laravel site:

To fix this issue we are going to do the following:

• delete the node_modules folder
• delete package-lock.json file
• run: npm install
• open the .env file and make sure our environments line up with the script we are trying to run- IE make sure “npm watch” is set to work with the environment we are currently on. In this case “npm dev” was set to local and “npm watch” was set to staging.
• Run: npm run dev locally to confirm it works.
• Run: npm run watch on the staging site to confirm it works

Now we need to add a migration to get a portion of the site working with a new DB column, for this we will run:

• php artisan make:migration create_payment_status_column
• inside of the migration file we will add:

class CreatePaymentStatusColumn extends Migration
{
    /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function up()
    {
        Schema::table('companies', function (Blueprint $table) {
            $table->enum('payment_status',['trail', 'active', 'inactive'])->default('trail');
        });
    }

    /**
     * Reverse the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
    public function down()
    {
        $table->dropColumn('payment_status');
    }
}

Steps to setting up an old Laravel project:

First error screen:

Warning: require(/path/public/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /path/public/index.php on line 24

Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/path/public/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/local/Cellar/php@7.4/7.4.19/share/php@7.4/pear') in /path/public/index.php on line 24

Fix:

run: composer install

Second Error Screen:

Fix:

Download the .env file from the staging site and change it to work with the local DB

Third Error:

ErrorException (E_ERROR)
The Mix manifest does not exist. (View: /path/resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php)
(View: /path/resources/views/layouts/app.blade.php)

Fix:

To fix this we will want to run “npm install followed by npm run dev” however when we run “npm install” we get the error message incorrect or missing password. To fix this we must first do:

download the .npmrc file from staging

rm -rf node_modules
rm package-lock.json
rm yarn.lock
npm cache clear --force
npm install
composer install
npm run dev

now we can run
npm insall 
npm install --save-dev webpack
npm run dev
   type yes to install CLI for webpack