Elixir manifest file not written

Quick fix would be to redo your web server configuration and use a symlink instead of changing it to public_html.

There's some set paths in this file (version function): https://github.com/laravel/elixir/blob/master/ingredients/version.js

PR here about it: https://github.com/laravel/elixir/pull/43

Please show your gulpfile.js, I'm guessing the output directory is incorrectly set.

Example:

elixir(function(mix) {
    mix.less('app.less')
        .styles([
            'app.css',
            'main.css'
        ], null, 'public/css/')
        // format above is: ], 'output dir', 'source dir')
        .version('public/css/all.css');
});

Ok, was checking the source and noticed that the version command has a structure like this:

elixir.extend('version', function(src, buildDir) {

So we can pass the "build" directory like so:

elixir(function(mix) {
    mix.less('app.less')
        //.sass('main.scss')
        .styles([
            'app.css',
            'main.css'
        ], null, 'yoursource/css/')
        .version('yoursource/css/all.css', 'public_html');
});

Public folder still gets set though for some parts?

@bashy there do appear to be some defaults hard coded to /public.

At worst, you might end up with an extra "public" folder, but at least the build folder and related files will be in the right place.

Thanks for the advice everyone, I solved it by adding a trailing slash to the build path similar to @sitesense suggested, i.e. 'public_html/' and it did it's thing in 'public_html/build'.