Laravel 5 Class 'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' not found on AWS

Question

I know there are a bunch of other questions floating around out there with the same error, such as: Class 'Illuminate\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' not found Laravel 5

My problem is that I've followed all suggested steps to solve this on my local (XAMPP), and it fixed it without a hitch. The issue is when I went to deploy to my AWS ubuntu box (nginx). I followed all the usual instructions: http://laravelcollective.com/docs/5.1/html#installation

My providers and aliases had been added when I did a git pull from what I had pushed from my local. Perhaps this file should have been gitignored, and the change made manually on the server?

Next, add your new provider to the providers array of config/app.php:

  'providers' => [
    // ...
    Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider::class,
    // ...
  ],

Finally, add two class aliases to the aliases array of config/app.php:

  'aliases' => [
    // ...
      'Form' => Collective\Html\FormFacade::class,
      'Html' => Collective\Html\HtmlFacade::class,
    // ...
  ],

I then manually added:

Begin by installing this package through Composer. Edit your project's composer.json file to require laravelcollective/html.

"require": {
    "laravelcollective/html": "5.1.*"
}

And finally, I ran:

composer.phar update

It was running this command that throws the error:

PHP Warning:  Module 'mcrypt' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
> php artisan clear-compiled
PHP Warning:  Module 'mcrypt' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Fatal error:  Class 'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' not found in /usr/share/nginx/html/cbt/vendor/compiled.php on line 6



  [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]
  Class 'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' not found



Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the pre-update-cmd event returned with an error



  [RuntimeException]
  Error Output: PHP Warning:  Module 'mcrypt' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
  PHP Fatal error:  Class 'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' not found in /usr/share/nginx/html/cbt/vendor/compiled.php on line



update [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--dry-run] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--lock] [--no-plugins] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-auties] [-v|vv|vvv|--verbose] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--prefer-stable] [--prefer-lowest] [packages1] ...

I then tried running php artisan clear-compiled, to see if that would do anything, and got:

PHP Warning:  Module 'mcrypt' already loaded in Unknown on line 0
PHP Fatal error:  Class 'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' not found in /usr/share/nginx/html/cbt/vendor/compiled.php on line 6716



  [Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalErrorException]
  Class 'Collective\Html\HtmlServiceProvider' not found

I know my nginx ubuntu environment is not the same as a windows xampp env, but I'm still unsure why following the Laravel-provided instructions for adding this don't seem to working. Would greatly appreciate some advice on this.

Cheers!

Answer 1

When you update your composer it will check the providers. Because you haven't installed laravelcollective/html yet he can't find it and throws an error:

So first require your packeges, then add them to the config file.

You can also work with composer require laravelcollective/html, it will add it to the json file automatically. Then it doesn't matter if you have added them before or not because the config file won't be checked.