It's probably a permissions problem.
Have you checked that the folders (sessions, logs, ...) are writable ?
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On the development environment, the application creates a file session in framework/sessions folder. However, on the production environment it's not writing to the framework/sessions folder. So I'm unable to log in to our application. Also, noticed that the 'storage/logs/laravel.log' is blank.
Unfortunately, my admin is stating that it's not a permission issue. I
Simple fix. Production and development servers were using different methods to keep session info
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