@the-dude in docker when we change anything we need to restart the whole server have you tried that
sudo apt-get udpate
sudo systemctl restart apache2
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I've read the other posts on laracasts about Class "DOMDocument" not found, but none seem to answer the question.
The error occurs on php artisan storage:link php artisan clear-compiled but 'php artisan' runs fine.
Class "DOMDocument" not found
at vendor/nunomaduro/termwind/src/HtmlRenderer.php:32
28▕ * Parses the given html.
29▕ */
30▕ public function parse(string $html): Components\Element
31▕ {
➜ 32▕ $dom = new DOMDocument();
33▕
34▕ if (strip_tags($html) === $html) {
35▕ return Termwind::span($html);
36▕ }
21 artisan:37
Illuminate\Foundation\Console\Kernel::handle()
Running PHP inside docker, php-dom seems to be installed by default. php -m reveals 'dom' is installed. This error started after a few pushes and pull of git to the server.
dd(class_exists('DOMDocument')) returns true
php -m results
[PHP Modules]
Core
ctype
curl
date
dom
fileinfo
filter
ftp
hash
iconv
imagick
json
libxml
mbstring
mysqlnd
openssl
pcre
PDO
pdo_sqlite
Phar
posix
readline
Reflection
session
SimpleXML
sodium
SPL
sqlite3
standard
tokenizer
xdebug
xml
xmlreader
xmlwriter
zlib
[Zend Modules]
Xdebug
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