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I am using Laravel Forge and my application is not deploying. Unfortunately Jeffrey's videos are quite out of date now. Hope somebody can help. Here is what I get
Warning: require(/home/forge/default/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/forge/default/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
my .gitignore is like so
/bootstrap/compiled.php
/vendor
composer.phar
composer.lock
.env.*.php
.env.php
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db
tests/_output/*
tests/_output/*
The sighted line 17 in bootstrap/autoload.php is
require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';
I understand that since the vendor path is in my .gitignore those files are not added to my github repository -- this is how it is in laracast Forge-Demo also
So how does the vendor directory get uploaded to the server
Hope somebody can help
Thx
The vendor folder should not be uploaded to the git repo. Instead, you either do
composer update
// OR
composer install
To do the install one, you will need to copy your composer.lock file to the git with it being updated on your local dev files.
When I removed composer.lock from .gitignore and did a commit and push everything ok -- Thx
Good :)
Thanks so much Bashy you're here to to save the day again. This worked for me as well with removeoing composer.lock from git.ignore and quick deploy. How my word Forge is just such a pleasure,, now I can get back to developing
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