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As the title says, I have a VPS running on CentOS 7, I installed all the requisites for Laravel, PHP 7.3, but it still giving me 'Server Error 500'.

Note that this is a fresh installation of Laravel with composer.

  • My CentOS version is CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
  • PHP version is PHP 7.3.6 (cli)
  • I manually installed all the necessary modules from PHP



What I have already tried

I already did quite a lot of research:

Laravel giving 500 internal error on centos 7 with apache and php 7
I followed what the answer to that questions says and still the same for me.

I did also set up permissions correctly following this other post:
How to set up File Permissions for Laravel 5 (and others)

Also these ones
Getting a 500 Internal Server Error on Laravel 5+ Ubuntu 14.04

https://www.ionos.com/community/server-cloud-infrastructure/apache/how-to-fix-http-error-code-500-internal-server-error/

And a bunch of more articles I read on another websites.

These are the permissions for the project folder:
drwxr-xr-x 13 apache apache 4096 May 31 05:23 laravel

And for storage:
drwxr-xr-x 5 apache apache 4096 May 31 04:44 storage




Tried generating the key and got this:

[root@server laravel]# php artisan key:generate

   ErrorException  : file_get_contents(/var/www/laravel/.env): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

  at /var/www/laravel/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/KeyGenerateCommand.php:96
     92|     {
     93|         file_put_contents($this->laravel->environmentFilePath(), preg_replace(
     94|             $this->keyReplacementPattern(),
     95|             'APP_KEY='.$key,
  >  96|             file_get_contents($this->laravel->environmentFilePath())
     97|         ));
     98|     }
     99|
    100|     /**

  Exception trace:

  1   file_get_contents("/var/www/laravel/.env")
      /var/www/laravel/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/KeyGenerateCommand.php:96

  2   Illuminate\Foundation\Console\KeyGenerateCommand::writeNewEnvironmentFileWith("base64:soTdeaCmsY1ELnpJLCcYkBJjY6SWiLYwY+Mvoxl9wOw=")
      /var/www/laravel/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/KeyGenerateCommand.php:80

  Please use the argument -v to see more details.
[root@server laravel]#
superjesus
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  • Could post as well the permissions you gave to the storage folder and the owner/group of your project folder on the server? – mdexp May 31 '19 at 10:08
  • Also make sure your .env file contains an application key. If that's not the case you can generate a new one by typing: `php artisan key:generate` – mdexp May 31 '19 at 10:10
  • @mdexp I added the permissions to the question. I'll try that, thanks – superjesus May 31 '19 at 10:13
  • @mdexp I got an error running that command, it says it cannot open .env, added that also – superjesus May 31 '19 at 10:15
  • Then you miss the Laravel environment configuration file. You should have a .env.example file on the fresh Laravel installation. Duplicate that one and rename it to .env then run the key:generate command – mdexp May 31 '19 at 10:17
  • Indeed, I didn't have a .env file. That fixed my issue, add that as an answer so I can accept it. Thank you – superjesus May 31 '19 at 10:21

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Did you created the var/www/laravel/.env file from your var/www/laravel/.env.example file?

BalajAndrei
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So, I fixed it configuring properly the .env and generating a key as @mdexp mentioned. So for everyone having problems, check the links in my question and set everything correctly

superjesus
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Seems like you miss the Laravel environment configuration file.

In a fresh Laravel installation you should have a .env.example file. Duplicate that one and rename it to .env then run the php artisan key:generate command.

mdexp
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