Tonight, I tried to run composer install and all the dependencies installed correctly, and then composer ran php artisan clear compiled and I ran into trouble.

Here's the error it returned:

> php artisan clear-compiled [ErrorException] file_put_contents(/srv/something/site/bootstrap/cache/services.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-install-cmd event returned with an error [RuntimeException] Error Output: install [--prefer-source] [--prefer-dist] [--dry-run] [--dev] [--no-dev] [--no-plugins] [--no-custom-installers] [--no-autoloader] [--no-scripts] [--no-progress] [-v|vv|vvv|--verbose] [-o|--optimize-autoloader] [-a|--classmap-authoritative] [--ignore-platform-reqs] [--] [<packages>]...

Naturally, I googled it and found everyone on the laracast forums saying to make the directory I was missing, so I did and the command ran again fine. When I went to any page I got this: file_put_contents(/differentNameDependingOnPageButAlwaysRandomLettersAndNumbers.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied

For example here's the traceback for the login page:

ErrorException in Filesystem.php line 81: file_put_contents(/8ff8cea6e3bb10ecec87b9d62c64f9768c4c4ab1.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied in Filesystem.php line 81 at HandleExceptions->handleError('2', 'file_put_contents(/8ff8cea6e3bb10ecec87b9d62c64f9768c4c4ab1.php): failed to open stream: Permission denied', '/srv/something/site/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php', '81', array('path' => '/8ff8cea6e3bb10ecec87b9d62c64f9768c4c4ab1.php', 'contents' => '<?php $__env->startSection('title'); ?> Admin Login <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php $__env->startSection('form'); ?> <form class="form-horizontal" method="POST" action = "login"> <?php echo e($error); ?><?php /*TODO this doesn't show up now, when you do login make it show up*/ ?> <fieldset> <!-- Form Name --> <h1 class="section-heading" style="text-align: center;">Login</h1> <!-- Text input--> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="email">Email</label> <div class="col-md-4"> <input id="email" name="email" type="email" id = "email" placeholder="user@domain.com" class="form-control input-md" required=""> </div> </div> <!-- Password input--> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="password">Password</label> <div class="col-md-4"> <input id="password" name="password" type="password" placeholder="********" class="form-control input-md" required=""> </div> </div> <!-- Button --> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="Submit"></label> <div class="col-md-4"> <button id="submit" name="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button> </div> </fieldset> </form> <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php $__env->startSection('message'); ?> <p class="text-muted" style="text-align:center">Don't have an account yet? Click <a href="../register">here</a> to register.</p> <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php echo $__env->make('auth.partials.master', array_except(get_defined_vars(), array('__data', '__path')))->render(); ?>', 'lock' => false)) at file_put_contents('/8ff8cea6e3bb10ecec87b9d62c64f9768c4c4ab1.php', '<?php $__env->startSection('title'); ?> Admin Login <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php $__env->startSection('form'); ?> <form class="form-horizontal" method="POST" action = "login"> <?php echo e($error); ?><?php /*TODO this doesn't show up now, when you do login make it show up*/ ?> <fieldset> <!-- Form Name --> <h1 class="section-heading" style="text-align: center;">Login</h1> <!-- Text input--> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="email">Email</label> <div class="col-md-4"> <input id="email" name="email" type="email" id = "email" placeholder="user@domain.com" class="form-control input-md" required=""> </div> </div> <!-- Password input--> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="password">Password</label> <div class="col-md-4"> <input id="password" name="password" type="password" placeholder="********" class="form-control input-md" required=""> </div> </div> <!-- Button --> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="Submit"></label> <div class="col-md-4"> <button id="submit" name="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button> </div> </fieldset> </form> <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php $__env->startSection('message'); ?> <p class="text-muted" style="text-align:center">Don't have an account yet? Click <a href="../register">here</a> to register.</p> <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php echo $__env->make('auth.partials.master', array_except(get_defined_vars(), array('__data', '__path')))->render(); ?>', '0') in Filesystem.php line 81 at Filesystem->put('/8ff8cea6e3bb10ecec87b9d62c64f9768c4c4ab1.php', '<?php $__env->startSection('title'); ?> Admin Login <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php $__env->startSection('form'); ?> <form class="form-horizontal" method="POST" action = "login"> <?php echo e($error); ?><?php /*TODO this doesn't show up now, when you do login make it show up*/ ?> <fieldset> <!-- Form Name --> <h1 class="section-heading" style="text-align: center;">Login</h1> <!-- Text input--> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="email">Email</label> <div class="col-md-4"> <input id="email" name="email" type="email" id = "email" placeholder="user@domain.com" class="form-control input-md" required=""> </div> </div> <!-- Password input--> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="password">Password</label> <div class="col-md-4"> <input id="password" name="password" type="password" placeholder="********" class="form-control input-md" required=""> </div> </div> <!-- Button --> <div class="form-group"> <label class="col-md-4 control-label" for="Submit"></label> <div class="col-md-4"> <button id="submit" name="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Submit</button> </div> </fieldset> </form> <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php $__env->startSection('message'); ?> <p class="text-muted" style="text-align:center">Don't have an account yet? Click <a href="../register">here</a> to register.</p> <?php $__env->stopSection(); ?> <?php echo $__env->make('auth.partials.master', array_except(get_defined_vars(), array('__data', '__path')))->render(); ?>') in BladeCompiler.php line 102 at BladeCompiler->compile('/srv/something/site/resources/views/auth/login.blade.php') in CompilerEngine.php line 51 at CompilerEngine->get('/srv/something/site/resources/views/auth/login.blade.php', array('__env' => object(Factory), 'app' => object(Application), 'error' => '')) in View.php line 135 at View->getContents() in View.php line 106 at View->renderContents() in View.php line 80 at View->render() in Response.php line 53 at Response->setContent(object(View)) in Response.php line 197 at Response->__construct(object(View)) in Router.php line 1030 at Router->prepareResponse(object(Request), object(View)) in ControllerDispatcher.php line 95 at ControllerDispatcher->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(object(Request)) at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 52 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(object(Request)) at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 103 at Pipeline->then(object(Closure)) in ControllerDispatcher.php line 96 at ControllerDispatcher->callWithinStack(object(authController), object(Route), object(Request), 'getAdminLogin') in ControllerDispatcher.php line 54 at ControllerDispatcher->dispatch(object(Route), object(Request), 'App\Http\Controllers\authController', 'getAdminLogin') in Route.php line 174 at Route->runController(object(Request)) in Route.php line 140 at Route->run(object(Request)) in Router.php line 703 at Router->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(object(Request)) at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 52 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(object(Request)) at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 103 at Pipeline->then(object(Closure)) in Router.php line 705 at Router->runRouteWithinStack(object(Route), object(Request)) in Router.php line 678 at Router->dispatchToRoute(object(Request)) in Router.php line 654 at Router->dispatch(object(Request)) in Kernel.php line 246 at Kernel->Illuminate\Foundation\Http\{closure}(object(Request)) at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 52 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(object(Request)) in CheckForMaintenanceMode.php line 44 at CheckForMaintenanceMode->handle(object(Request), object(Closure)) at call_user_func_array(array(object(CheckForMaintenanceMode), 'handle'), array(object(Request), object(Closure))) in Pipeline.php line 124 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}(object(Request)) at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 32 at Pipeline->Illuminate\Routing\{closure}(object(Request)) at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 103 at Pipeline->then(object(Closure)) in Kernel.php line 132 at Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter(object(Request)) in Kernel.php line 99 at Kernel->handle(object(Request)) in index.php line 54

So far, to try to fix this I've done the following:

Checked permissions, changed everything to 777 and to be owned by www-data Tried recloning the empty repository with no vendor file, to no avail, same error on composer install Ran php artisan cache:clear Ran php artisan clear-compiled Ran php artisan dump-autoload Modified site/config/view.php on an irc suggestion, and changed compiled' => realpath(storage_path().'/framework/views') to 'compiled' => storage_path('framework/views'), which yielded a different error: file_put_contents(/srv/something/site/storage/framework/views/8ff8cea6e3bb10ecec87b9d62c64f9768c4c4ab1.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory (probably because it's not supposed to be there, but who knows this information could be useful.)

All of this to no avail. The weird part is this issue seemingly showed up out of nowhere. Thanks for the help!