Laravel 5 Blade Not Working on CentOS 7

Question

I tried to install a fresh laravel project on CentOS 7 running Apache/PHP 5.6/MariaDB.

on /var/www :

composer create-project laravel/laravel devil
chmod -R 777 devil/storage
chmod -R 777 devil/vendor

When I tried to access it from browser, it seems the blade extension is not working. It keep showing blank page without any error.

I checked the HTTP response showing 500 (Internal server error) on my chrome web developer extension.

The app only work if I don't use blade templating at all (not use .blade.php extension and the blade syntax).

Below is the folder structure

drwxr-xr-x. 10 adzar adzar   4096 Mar 25 04:06 app
-rwxr-xr-x.  1 adzar adzar   1635 Mar 25 04:06 artisan
drwxr-xr-x.  2 adzar adzar     39 Mar 25 04:06 bootstrap
-rw-r--r--.  1 adzar adzar    788 Mar 25 04:06 composer.json
-rw-r--r--.  1 adzar adzar 100509 Mar 25 04:06 composer.lock
drwxr-xr-x.  2 adzar adzar   4096 Mar 25 04:06 config
drwxr-xr-x.  4 adzar adzar     52 Mar 25 04:06 database
-rw-r--r--.  1 adzar adzar    503 Mar 25 04:06 gulpfile.js
-rw-r--r--.  1 adzar adzar     98 Mar 25 04:06 package.json
-rw-r--r--.  1 adzar adzar     87 Mar 25 04:06 phpspec.yml
-rw-r--r--.  1 adzar adzar    777 Mar 25 04:06 phpunit.xml
drwxr-xr-x.  4 adzar adzar     95 Mar 25 04:06 public
-rw-r--r--.  1 adzar adzar   1724 Mar 25 04:06 readme.md
drwxr-xr-x.  5 adzar adzar     42 Mar 25 04:06 resources
-rw-r--r--.  1 adzar adzar    560 Mar 25 04:06 server.php
drwxrwxrwx.  5 adzar adzar     60 Mar 25 04:06 storage
drwxr-xr-x.  2 adzar adzar     47 Mar 25 04:06 tests
drwxrwxrwx. 26 adzar adzar   4096 Apr  8 18:31 vendor

The .env file (unchanged)

APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_KEY=EOvUHTpMtavKDMx1GdkREtbves8PVEUb

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_DATABASE=homestead
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_DRIVER=sync

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=mailtrap.io

I use IP address (100.255.XXX.XXX) to access my app using apache virtual host. Below is my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf .

...

#
# ServerName gives the name and port that the server uses to identify itself.
# This can often be determined automatically, but we recommend you specify
# it explicitly to prevent problems during startup.
#
# If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address here.
#
ServerName 100.255.XXX.XXX

...

<VirtualHost *:80>
        ServerName 100.255.XXX.XXX
        DocumentRoot /var/www/devil/public

        <Directory /var/www/devil>
            AllowOverride All
        </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Please help, thank you.

Answer 1

Update

After hours of trying I finally able to fix the problem by disabling SELinux.

setenforce 0

However, I still have no idea why.

Answer 2

Blade templating caches its templates in the file system extensively.

Therefore, you need to make sure that the appropriate folders are writable by your web server.

Laravel may require some permissions to be configured: folders within storage and vendor require write access by the web server.

Fix your folder permissions by running the following command in console:

chmod 664 /var/www/devil/storage -R

chmod 664 /var/www/devil/vendor -R

Source: http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/installation#configuration