Custom Request Class not Found on VPS

How do you use your Request class in your controller? What is the namespace of the Request class? And is the Request in the same directory as the namespace?

This file should be in the `app/Http/Requests/Dashboard/Employees directory.

// GetEmployeesTableRequest.php

namespace App\Http\Requests\Dashboard\Employees;

class GetEmployeesTableRequest extends Request 
{

}

In your controller you will have something like this

// Controller
use App\Http\Requests\Dashboard\Employees\GetEmployeesTableRequest;

public function store(GetEmployeesTableRequest $request)
{

}

Show the GetEmployeesTableRequest class

You have gone from a case-insensitive development environment to a case-sensitive production environment

A common issue is having the wrong letter case somewhere.

Thanks all for replying. The below is the content of GetEmployeesTableRequest.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Requests\Dashboard\Employees;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Http\FormRequest;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Gate;
use App\Exceptions\Authorization\GetEmployeeListPermissionException;
use Illuminate\Validation\ValidationException;

class GetEmployeesTableRequest extends FormRequest
{
    /**
     * Determine if the user is authorized to make this request.
     *
     * @return bool
     */
    public function authorize()
    {
        return Gate::allows('get_employees_list');
    }

    /**
     * Get the validation rules that apply to the request.
     *
     * @return array
     */
    public function rules()
    {
        //
    }
    
    public function messages()
    {
        //
    }
    
    protected function failedAuthorization()
    {
        throw new GetEmployeeListPermissionException();
    }
    
    protected function failedValidation($validator)
    {
        throw new ValidationException($validator, jsonResponse($validator->errors()->first()));
    }
}

And this is content of EmployeeController.php

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers\Dashboard;

use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\User;
use App\Role;
use App\Http\Requests\Dashboard\Employees\GetEmployeesTableRequest;

class EmployeeController extends Controller
{    
    /**
     * Display a listing of the employees.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index(GetEmployeesTableRequest $request)
    {
        // get Employee list
       // Setup pagination data
        $perPage        = $request->query('per_page') ?? 20;
        $currentPage    = $request->query('page') ?? 1;
        
        // Setup Sorting
        $sortBy     = $request->query('sort_by') ?? 'id';
        $order      = $request->query('order') ?? 'desc';
        
        $roles      = $request->query('roles') ?? '';
        $status     = $request->query('resigned') ?? '';
        
        // Setup main query
        $data = User::with(['roles' => function ($q) use ($sortBy, $order) {
            $q->select('id', 'name');
            
            if ($sortBy === 'roles') {
                $q->orderBy('roles.name', $order);
            }
        }])->where('type', 'employee');
        
        // Setup roles filter
        if ($request->query('roles')) {
            $data = $data->whereHas('roles', function ($q) use ($request) {
                $q->where('id', $request->query('roles'));
            });
        }
        
        // Setup status filter
        if (is_numeric($request->query('resigned'))
                && ($request->query('resigned') == 0 || $request->query('resigned') == 1 ))
        {
            $data->where('resigned', $request->query('resigned'));
        }
        
        // Setup keyword
        if ($request->query('keyword')) {
            $keyword = explode(" ", trim($request->query('keyword')));
            
            foreach ($keyword as $k) {
                $data = $data->where(function($q) use ($k) {
                    $q->orWhere('name',  'LIKE', "%$k%");
                    $q->orWhere('email',     'LIKE', "%$k%");
                    $q->orWhere('tel',    'LIKE', "%$k%");
                    $q->orWhere('address',     'LIKE', "%$k%");
                    $q->orWhere('facebook',       'LIKE', "%$k%");
                });
            }
        }
        
        if ($sortBy !== 'roles') {
            $data = $data->orderBy($sortBy, $order);
        }
        
        $data = $data->paginate($perPage, ['*'], 'page', $currentPage);
       
        return view('dashboard.employees.index', [
            'employees'  => $data,
            'roles'      => Role::all('id', 'name'),
        ]);
    }
}

To @Snapey, I also though that it is the case sensitive error, but after checked, I can sure that is is impossible, because:

1. I created these classes via Laravel commnd, and using Eclipse IDE to develop, which help me a lot for auto completing the method name, propertiy names, as well as import declaration etc.
2. The app worked fine too when I run it to my Virtual machine which using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (my VPS run Centos 7)

And the request file and path is exactly App/Http/Requests/Dashboard/Employees/GetEmployeesTableRequest.php

Almost, the App folder' name is app, not App

Check the owner/permissions of all dirs leading to that file, including the file itself.

It could be you were logged in as a different user when running the artisan command

dunno then. Its normally composer dump or a case sensitivity.

Does it appear in vendor/composer/autoload_classmap.php

To @Cronix I have run the command chown -R nginx:nginx . at the root directory of Laravel app. Is it enough?

To @Snapey yes, it's already at there

// autoload_classmap.php @generated by Composer

$vendorDir = dirname(dirname(__FILE__));
$baseDir = dirname($vendorDir);

return array(
   //  ......................................
    'App\Http\Requests\Dashboard\Employees\GetEmployeesTableRequest' => $baseDir . '/app/Http/Requests/Dashboard/Employees/GetEmployeesTableRequest.php',
   //  ......................................
);

No answer. May be I have to use ubuntu instead of Centos