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[L5] Give Blank White Page when upload on Shared Hosting (GoDaddy)

I develop Laravel 5 app on localhost. When I upload app on shared hosting it give me blank white page. I am using PHP Version 5.5.20. mod_rewrite is active on shared hosting. Is there any way to work L5 on shared hosting. storage have the 777 permission and other folder have 755 and 644. Debug mode is set to true. Laravel is not generating any error log file. Apache log is also not showing any error. What may be the problem.

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bashy's avatar

Check the storage folder has suffice write permissions for the web server user.

mod_rewrite "is" required...if they don't have it, what kind of shared hosting is this?!?! You may have to resort to /index.php/blog links in that case.

joginder89's avatar

@bashy storage have the 777 permission and other folder have 755 and 644. I think i need to ask to enable mod_rewrite. Thank you for your reply.

bashy's avatar

Oh sorry, just seen you said that at the end of your thread. Or maybe you just edited it... who knows!

Turn debug on briefly?

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@bashy I edit the question later so that future reader have not need to read the whole thread to answer the question. I have turned on the debug mood but i do not get any answer and I do not get any log file in side log folder.

bashy's avatar

Can't know without some sort of error. Can you check main web server logs? PHP errors?

joginder89's avatar

@bashy mod_rewrite is active on shared hosting. Laravel is not generating any error log file. Apache log is also not showing any error. What may be the problem.

bashy's avatar

No access logs either?

I don't know what you've checked or done so it could be anything.

bashy's avatar

If the web server isn't reaching Laravel, you won't get any errors because your web server hasn't got to that part yet.

You will need to check Apache error/access logs for more info.

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