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ajorgenson's avatar

Need help troubleshooting blank screen

So I'm getting the infamous white screen when trying to deploy Laravel to a Ubuntu Server I set up. Nothing appears in storage/logs.

I have tried the following and executed the them to the best of my knowledge:

Giving the entire laravel directory 777 permissions, Installing composer on the server

Any ideas on what I can do to further troubleshoot this?

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Phinocio's avatar

You've mentioned installing composer on the server, have you done

 composer install

?

ajorgenson's avatar

So I figured it out. Turns out I accidentally installed Ubuntu 10.04 instead of 14.04 so it was installing a very old version of PHP(5.3).

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