Laravel is not working on Ubuntu 16.04 VPS

Question

I have been trying all day to get Laravel up on a Virtual Server that is being served by 1&1 Hosting. The thing is, I am terrible at Command Line tasks but wanted to take on the challenge for educational purposes.

What I did was transfer my entire folder where laravel lived on my localhost (where it worked perfectly) into my virtual server. After doing that, when I goto http://myip/myproject ...all I get is:

This page isn’t working

myip is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500 

However, before I was getting a 404 error so I know something happened. I am not exactly sure why this is happening and for some reason I am unable to access the error log. One thing I can provide however is that I tried to run php artisan dump-autoload and got the following error:

[Symfony\Component\Console\Exception\CommandNotFoundException]  
  Command "dump-autoload" is not defined.

I can also access folders like the app folder without problem which would not have been possible on my localhost

Answer 1

Here is a quick list to successfully install laravel!

• [ ] Point you document root to your public folder
• [ ] Install composer on server
• [ ] sudo apt-get install php7.0-mbstring
• [ ] sudo apt-get install php7.0-zip
• [ ] sudo apt-get install php-xml
• [ ] sudo apt-get install php-curl
• [ ] a2enmod rewrite (Enable apache mod rewrite, if using apache)
• [ ] Give writting permissions on Storage and Bootstrap folder
• [ ] run composer install on your project folder
• [ ] run your migrations and change the .env to connect to database
• [ ] service apache2 restart

And remember that the command is composer dump-autoload.