Laravel Artisan make command issue

Question

I am trying to make a middleware using artisan php artisan make:middleware AuthorizedUserOnly but I get ErrorException like below.

file_get_contents(/mysite.com/www/local/composer.json) Failed to open stream no such file or directory.

This is my document root.

-local
  -Laravel application folders
  -artisan
-index.php
-composer.json
.htaccess

I changed my directory structure to work with shared hosting. And It was working fine.

KEY NOTES

1. Other artisan commands work. Like I tried php artisan route:list & php artisan config:cache & php artisan tinker .
2. This directory structure works fine.But as the error says that it is trying to find composer.json in local directory while it is on document root .
3. php artisan make:model command spits the same Exception

What could be the possible issue and solution ?

Answer 1

Solution : I moved my composer.json file to local directory and it worked fine. So new directory structure is

-local
  -Laravel Application Folders
  -composer.json
  -artisan
-index.php
.htaccess

HOW ?

I am not sure about this yet. But this is the possible reason. php artisan make command create some files. So to included these created files into system execute composer dump-autoload . So to run composer it looks for in the same directory where artisan lives which is local directory in my case.

IMPORTANT

I changed laravel default directory structure to successfully run my applicaiton on SHARED HOSTING which laravel DOESNOT RECOMMEND .

We should follow the recommendations made by laravel to avoid any similiar issue. Specially never to mess with default directory structure at least.