Just installed by the spec of the doc's larval. I am running on Ubuntu with Nginx as my server. Once I got it installed all I see is a white page and nothing else other than the words
Error in exception handler
In my actual error logs I see
Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /var/www/vhosts/dir/dir/dir/dir.com/public/index.pl
note: that I replaced the dir path here, with dir/dir/dir/dir...
Neither of which lead me to any conclusive examples of how to fix it or trouble shoot it. Soo. I am coming here hoping someone can help me solve this so I can attempt to use Laravel
Ok, I am sure this will not answer everyones question to this problem, nor is it a solution I am fully happy with. I will have to research my server a little more for a better answer.
All in all what I ended up finding out through some digging is a particular directory needed to have write access. So for me to do that with my current server settings was to
sudo chmod -R guo+w app/storage
from the command line to allow global write privileges to the app/storage directory
I generally the artisan serve with sudo. This will give artisan all the permissions it needs and won't make any security troubles as well.
so instead starting artisan serve with:
$ php artisan serve
try using:
$ sudo php artisan serve
thus you wont have to make any permission changes