Laravel wsod (white screen of death) on godaddy hosting

Question

I'm developing a laravel 5.1 application which is working absolutely fine on my localhost. But when I deploy it to GoDaddy's shared hosting, it gives a blank white page on opening the domain.

I have followed this tutorial to upload to the server. http://www.nickmarriotti.com/blog/deploying-laravel-5-project-to-godaddy

How can I resolve this error problem? Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

Kindly check the file permissions. Generally this issue comes when file permissions are not as it should be. Better call the GoDaddy customer care and they will run a quick check and will tell you if there is any problem with file permissions.

Also, GoDaddy Server, I mean CPanel by default supports a lower PHP Version. Where as New versions of laravel requires PHP >= 5.5.9. Kindly tell GoDaddy guys to upgrade your Server PHP version.

Follow these two steps and you should be fine.

Answer 2

This is one of the most common installation errors caused by invalid permissions. Please login via ssh to your server and run this command to fix it.

chmod -R 777 LARAVEL/storage

Here LARAVEL is the path to your laravel installation in Laravel 5.*, while as for Laravel 4.*, LARAVEL will be path/to/laravel/app, as storage resides inside app directory in Laravel 4.* installations.