moving Laravel project between computers

Question

I have been working on a laravel5 project on a computer , but now I want to continue on an other, but don't know how :(

I'm using wampserver and the project is in the "www" folder, this is the error I'm getting when trying to open the project: " Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request"

Answer 1

Your error message is very vague, so it is hard to pinpoint the cause. I assume you just copy pasted all of the project files

Try these steps:

1. Make sure you copy all of the project files including the hidden ones(.env).
2. Prepare your destination computer as in http://laravel.com/docs/
3. Check you have all the necessary PHP extensions available in php.ini as in above link requirements. Also, watch your PHP version!
4. Install composer https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md
5. When copied, go to your destination folder and run composer install.

6. Run php artisan key:generate from the command line.

7. Run php artisan cache:clear from command line

   http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.commandline.php
   

8. Make sure your webserver is serving pages from project/public folder.

If laravel is failing, check the log file to see the cause

your_project/storage/logs/laravel.log