php - Can't make Laravel 4 to work on localhost

Question

I'm trying Laravel for the first time after reading an announcement of the Laravel4 beta releasing.

I followed these steps I installed composer and laravel with all the dependencies it needed. I put the laravel inside my ~/public_html directory - as I'm used to do it with Codeigniter, but I think something's wrong here.

If I point to the browser to http://localhost/~carlo/laravel-develop/, it just displays the content of the directory.

Then, while on the filesystem I had a laravel-develop/public folder, it didn't appear on the browser.

I've found that changing the .htaccess like this:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L] 
</IfModule>

resulted in an error when I try to access the public folder. The error:

ErrorException: Warning: file_put_contents(/home/carlo/public_html/laravel-develop/app/config/../storage/meta/services.json): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /home/carlo/public_html/laravel-develop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php line 77

another one:

/home/carlo/public_html/laravel-develop/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php line 77

then a long list of errors. The last one is:

require_once('/home/carlo/public_html/laravel-develop/start.php') in /home/carlo/public_html/laravel-develop/public/index.php line 53

Answer 1

Try to change the folder permissions for the storage folder using the terminal:

chmod -R 777 storage

More info on this matter can be found here.