Laravel default page blank

Question

No error in /var/log/apache2/error.log. I installed laravel using composer.

"msg" is my application name. When I access localhost/msg/ , I can see the following listing:

[   ]   CONTRIBUTING.md 2014-01-18 18:14    145  
[DIR]   app/    2014-01-18 18:14     -   
[   ]   artisan 2014-01-18 18:14    2.4K     
[DIR]   bootstrap/  2014-01-18 18:14     -   
[   ]   composer.json   2014-01-18 18:14    697  
[   ]   composer.lock   2014-01-23 10:06     53K     
[   ]   phpunit.xml 2014-01-18 18:14    566  
[DIR]   public/ 2014-01-18 18:14     -   
[   ]   readme.md   2014-01-18 18:14    1.8K     
[   ]   server.php  2014-01-18 18:14    519  
[DIR]   vendor/ 2014-01-23 10:06     -   

When I access localhost/msg/public/ , I get a blank page (no source code). Still no arror in the apache log.

All I did, other than the installer through composer, was a git init in the msg folder.

Any idea ? I'm really confused about not having error anywhere.

Answer 1

Some things to verify:

Try running

php artisan serve

to start the web server only for development purposes. You should have access to

localhost:8000

If it does not display Laravel's splash page, then there can be a problem with Composer. If it display the splash page, it could be

• Apache configuration
• app/storage directory not being writable by PHP

Also remember to check the Laravel logs for errors in addition to Apache error logs (Two last suggestions by @fideloper in question comments)

Answer 2

If the suggestions from @marcanuy fail, you may have to add a die('here'); statement before, and then after, each include in index.php to determine what is failing. If necessary, repeat this process in the included files.

I had lost the +x permission on laravel/bootstrap. In *nix environments this prevents you from reading the files that are in that directory.

Answer 3

I had WSOD on fresh install of laravel too. It was working on my local testing machine, but not on the online server. The problem was that the online server had php 5.3 on it, after upgrading to 5.6 it worked fine.