Artisan doesnt output anything!

I installed a clean copy of laravel, and its artisan worked! ... I'm really confused!

Why the other one doesn't! how to see the errors it encountered?

I think I fixed it !

I'm getting this same problem. How did you fix it, do you know?

Ah, I figured it out: http://stackoverflow.com/a/28552987/99667

@StarTrix and @samwilson

that normally happens when you have a ServiceProvider problem. If you have vanilla copy of Laravel 5 then run the following commands:

//ensure you have the lastest version of composer - very important 
composer self-update 

// if you do then run, when in doubt always run this to regen your class maps 
composer dump-autoload 

// if you can get to php artisan then run
php artisan clear-compiled 

// there are other optimize commands but these will be your friends 

If none of those are working then go check your composer.json file i.e. run

composer validate // I think that is the command to check your json file

if that doesn't help then undo any changes you made to composer.json or any Facades or ServiceProviders you've added and start over or double check.

Cheers Nolan

Alright guys. Thanks all for trying to assist. something weird must have happened as I compared my other Laravel folder to this one and found out there were a whole lot of files missing! How bizarre! I have no idea how so many of my files just disapeared.

So my solution: I just kept copying files from a working Laravel project and eventually I came right.

Thanks again.

You need to run composer install in your fresh installation in order for artisan to work - your git repository doesn't usually hold your vendor directory, where the artisan files are!

Hi, I've just had the same issue, fortunately after making a couple of changes that I could rollback.

The issue for me was that I'd added a render() function into /app/Exceptions/Handler.php , and that was hiding the output of Artisan.