Laravel 5 show ErrorException file_put_contents failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Question

I have a project on Laravel 5 and I work with it at the office and at home too. It works fine, but recently at home it stopped working. Laravel show me two ErrorException

file_put_contents(G:\project\storage\framework\views/751d8a0fd8a7d4138c09ceb6a34bb377aa2d6265.php):
failed to open stream: No such file or directory

and

file_put_contents(G:\project\storage\framework/sessions/aIXycR4LIAUBVIqZu0T590paOMIpV8vfZGIroEp0):
failed to open stream: No such file or directory

I'm searching problem decision with Google and find information about correct rights. All advice is about Linux, but I'am work in Windows at the office and at home too.

When I try to clear application cache and view cache, artisan talk to me - ...cleared. But cache data and views are present in storage.

How can I fix this problem?

Yo can try cleaning the cache "php artisan cache:clear" I'm on linux, so I'm not sure about permission on windows, but check on folder properties if it's not read_only (right click on folder->properties) — educolo, Oct 26 '17 at 17:30
@educolo I don't think the problem is about directory rights, because several month it was ok. — Evgeniy, Oct 26 '17 at 17:57
Possible duplicate of [file\_put\_contents(meta/services.json): failed to open stream: Permission denied](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23540083/file-put-contentsmeta-services-json-failed-to-open-stream-permission-denied) — kenorb, Mar 22 '18 at 14:49
This solved my problem https://stackoverflow.com/a/72911821/7519779 — Nelson Katale, Jul 08 '22 at 13:03

score 215 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 16 '22 at 17:25

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The best way to solve this problem is, go to directory laravel/bootstrap/cache and delete config.php file. or you can rename it as well like config.php.old And your problem will be fixed.

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answered Dec 08 '17 at 10:32

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Yes that would help, but clearing the cache can do the job. Run outside the Vagrant Box `php artisan config:cache` will rebuild paths for the applications. When we are running application inside the vagrant box, paths are different to paths for dusk tests for example. – George Mylonas Jan 16 '18 at 12:27
Why does laravel's config make laravel die? Works thanks. – Andrew Aug 25 '18 at 19:20
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config:cache didnt fix for some reason. – Andrew Aug 25 '18 at 19:20
Clean, Simple, and direct for those that cant access via SSH at the time, or in general. Great answer! – levi Jan 17 '19 at 06:28
config:clear works for me beside the renaming the file works too, – Mohammed Omer Feb 07 '19 at 08:15
I did like 5 times `php artisan config:cache` did not work but deleting the config.php from laravel/bootstrap/cache did the trick – CarlosZ Nov 28 '19 at 00:04
Why does laravel's config make laravel die? Works thanks – saeedmpt Feb 24 '20 at 19:58
It will work for shared hosting user, just don't run any terminal command after deleting just upload the project on to the server. – Pareek Amit Mar 07 '20 at 18:18
deleting config.php from the bootstrap folder is working for me – Sumit Kumar Gupta Aug 03 '20 at 16:04
`mv bootstrap/cache/config.php bootstrap/cache/config.php.old` worked for me. Thanks. – Ryan May 03 '21 at 23:02
The best answer among all. – Gabriel Rogath Jul 12 '23 at 12:43

score 84 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:11

You should typically run the php artisan config:cache command as part of your production deployment routine. As a solution to your problem, I suggest you recreate the cache file, for faster configuration loading.

To do this, run the following Artisan commands on your command line

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:cache

You can programmatically execute the command by adding the following to your routes:

Route::get('/clear-cache', function() {
    $exitCode = Artisan::call('cache:clear');
    $exitCode = Artisan::call('config:cache');
    return 'DONE'; //Return anything
});

And then call the clear-cache route from your browser.

From at least Laravel 8 `config:clear` both clears and caches so there's no need to run two different commands. — Hashim Aziz, Mar 12 '23 at 19:39

score 65 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 19 '19 at 12:41

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After some research I understand - I have very similar, but different root project locations and its cached in /bootstrap/cache. After cache clearing project started.

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answered Oct 26 '17 at 21:18

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Wish I had seen this as it's the answer to my question about a missing service provider: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58192052/laravel-spark-google2fa-provider-class-not-found-after-spark-update-to-v9-0 – j3py Oct 21 '19 at 22:48

score 24 · Answer 4 · answered May 02 '19 at 12:02

Actually I faced this issue when I moved my project from server to local.

in

storage/framework

four basic folders are required cache, sessions, testing, views

In My case sessions was missing might be in gitignore.

So I manually created session folder and refreshed browser and it was working.

So any of the missing folder if we delete this problem can be solved.

tyasird · Answer 5 · 2022-04-05T14:34:37.143

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I solved this problem via creating storage\framework\sessions folder.

edited Apr 05 '22 at 14:34

answered Jul 12 '20 at 05:47

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This folder there was before in this path, I just emptied that and it solved my problem. – ParisaN Jul 14 '21 at 18:33

score 8 · Answer 6 · answered Apr 22 '19 at 13:15

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Apache + WSL on windows

This is a silly mistake, and a different answer compared to the others, but I'll add it because it happened to me.

If you use WSL (linux bash on windows) to manage your laravel application, while using your windows apache to run your server, then running any caching commands in the wsl will store the linux path rather than the windows path to the sessions and other folders.

Solution

Simply run the cache clearing commands in the powershell, rather than in WSL.

$ php artisan optimize

Was enough for me.

answered Apr 22 '19 at 13:15

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I ran into the same issue. I'm running Windows and also an instance of Linux on a VMWare virtual machine. This allows me to test both on Windows and Linux, but when I ran the `php artisan config:cache` command on Windows, my Linux would no longer load the application's web pages. Going into the bootstrap/cache folder and deleting the config.php file there resolved it. – David Tran Mar 24 '20 at 01:57

score 7 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 20 '18 at 02:16

This type of issue generally occurs while migrating one server to another, one folder to another. Laravel keeps the cache and configuration (file name ) when the folder is different then this problem occurs.

Solution Run Following command:

php artisan config:cache

https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/configuration#configuration-caching

Carlos Avalos · Answer 8 · 2019-01-10T04:09:01.327

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Try with these commands that have been useful with those errors

path\project\storage\framework\views...

php artisan view:clear

path\project\storage\framework/sessions...

php artisan config:cache

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answered Jan 09 '19 at 05:19

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If you post a new answer while there are already multiple upvoted answers, you should add some more explanation to it such that others can learn from your answer – Nico Haase Jan 09 '19 at 09:20

score 4 · Answer 9 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:14

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In case of shared hosting when you do not have command line access simply navigate to laravel/bootstrap/cache folder and delete (or rename) config.php.

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answered Feb 04 '19 at 10:00

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score 4 · Answer 10 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:13

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I deleted the file /public_html/bootstrap/cache/config.php

Then I ran php artisan config:cache

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answered Jan 22 '21 at 19:40

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score 3 · Answer 11 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:14

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This happens when you shift your website from local to live server or vice versa.
Simply go to bootstrap/cache and delete config.php.

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answered Jun 01 '21 at 18:15

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The top answer seems to suggest this already. Try to only add new information when posting answers to posts. – Timothy G. Jun 01 '21 at 20:31

score 3 · Answer 12 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:16

The reason is related to cache or permission.

Firstly, go to directory laravel/bootstrap/cache and delete all files from cache.

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
php artisan config:cache

If the errors still happen. It may relates to permission Let's try command below (In my case user&group of laravel is nginx)

sudo chgrp -R nginx storage bootstrap/cache
sudo chmod -R ug+rwx storage bootstrap/cache

score 2 · Answer 13 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:15

The reason for this problem is the cache files in localhost. According to that I've tried several things as follows to clear the cache on my project, but every time I've failed.

Tried to clear cahe commands by changing web.php file (with artisan codes)
Tried to clear cache by connecting SSH (via PUTTY)
Tried to host my project in Sub domain within create a new Public directory

So I've found a solution for this problem after each and every above steps failed and it worked for me perfectly. I deleted the cache.php file in host_route/bootstrap/cache directory.

score 2 · Answer 14 · answered Jan 28 '20 at 08:02

If you are running laravel inside docker then access its filesystem

$ docker exec -it name-of-laravel-container /bin/bash

Next navigate to your laravel projects root directory. Make sure that you have inside storage/framework folder:

cache
sessions
testing
views

And they should be both readable and writable.

score 2 · Answer 15 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:15

Changing name of /bootstrap/cache/config.php to config.php.old doesn't work for me neither clearing cache with the commands artisan

php artisan config:clear
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:cache

And for some weird reason I can't change permission for the owner on the directories, so my solution was running my IDE (Visual Studio Code) as admin, and everything works.

My project is in an F:/ path of another disk.

Moh Alaraabi · Answer 16 · 2021-01-11T18:52:12.693

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If nothing work try the following in the production environment

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composer install --optimize-autoloader --no-dev

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php artisan cache:clear

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php artisan config:clear

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php artisan view:clear

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php artisan config:cache

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php artisan route:cache

Works for me

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answered Jan 11 '21 at 16:06

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score 1 · Answer 17 · edited Mar 20 '23 at 14:45

Maybe there is an issue with your composer file. You could try:

composer install installs the vendor packages according to composer.lock (or creates composer.lock if not present),

composer update always regenerates composer.lock and installs the lastest versions of available packages based on composer.json

composer dump-autoload won’t download a thing. It just regenerates the list of all classes that need to be included in the project (autoload_classmap.php). Ideal for when you have a new class inside your project. Ideally, you execute composer dump-autoload -o , for a faster load of your webpages. The only reason it is not default, is because it takes a bit longer to generate (but is only slightly noticeable)

Above content originally quoted from Robin Brackez, What does ‘composer dump-autoload’ do in Laravel?

score 1 · Answer 18 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:18

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Clearing the contents of storage/framework/cache did the trick for me.

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score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Aug 21 '19 at 15:40

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In my case it was not anything that could be fixed with php artisan commands. The issue was folder permissions for the /storage folder. The error did not make that clear.

answered Aug 21 '19 at 15:40

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score 0 · Answer 20 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:18

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The solution that worked for me is to just serve the app as admin if you are

On mac or linux use sudo php artisan serve
On Windows try to open CMD as an adminstrator and then go to project directory and run php artisan serve

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Luis Rodriguez · Answer 21 · 2022-03-24T14:54:40.113

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I solved it clearing the content of:

/laravel/storage/framework/views

Then all the views were created again in that folder.

In my case these commands didn't fix it:

php artisan view:cache
php artisan route:cache
php artisan config:cache

I'm using Laravel 8 and in my case it seems that it was an issue with the permissions.

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answered Aug 19 '21 at 18:48

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score 0 · Answer 22 · answered Mar 12 '23 at 20:20

For failing tests

I got this error when I made the mistake of deleting the tests/console folder along with the tests/source folder - specifically I was getting the following error from the Dusk tests running on my CI/CD environment (GitHub Actions):

ErrorException: file_put_contents(/home/runner/work/mysite/mysite/tests/Browser/console/Tests_Browser_MyDuskTest1_test_payments_are_working-0.log): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory

tests/source is an optional folder whereas apparently the tests/console is not and needs to exist in order for Dusk integrated tests to run.

I'm not sure why Dusk doesn't just create the folder dynamically when writing the console logs to disk, but either way, restoring the deleted console folder in the tests directory fixes the issue. If you can no longer restore the deleted folder, just creating the console folder with an empty .gitignore file in it should have the same effect.

score -1 · Answer 23 · answered Nov 06 '17 at 05:03

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I had similar problems because of .gitignore for the /storage folder on first machine, then cloned repository on second machine and laravel was revision to write down sessions cache

So, manually creating folder /storage/sessions might be an solution..

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score -1 · Answer 24 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:18

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I used Laravel 8, This is my solution:

Goto:
storage/framework/cache/data
set permission directory data is 777

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score -1 · Answer 25 · answered Dec 01 '20 at 10:20

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This did the magic for me. chmod -Rf 0777 storage

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score -1 · Answer 26 · answered Jul 23 '21 at 18:43

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In my case, I set APP_DEBUG=false since it is a production server, I decided to set it back to true and then it showed Missing BC Math or GMP extension

That is how I solved my own issue, setting APP_DEBUG=true might not work for everybody.

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score -1 · Answer 27 · edited Oct 30 '21 at 05:19

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I went all the way, but I did not get the answer.
I just rename cache folder in storage/framework/ to cache1 and solved my problem.

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answered Sep 05 '21 at 06:15

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This is the same as clearing the cache, which has already been mentioned https://stackoverflow.com/a/64413142/2227743 – Eric Aya Sep 05 '21 at 09:00
yes but clear cache not work for me. after rename cache folder fixed error. – asghar Sep 06 '21 at 07:40

Laravel 5 show ErrorException file_put_contents failed to open stream: No such file or directory

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Apache + WSL on windows

Solution

For failing tests

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