Artisan serve doesn't work and it deletes server.php

Question

I have just install xampp and laravel and when I create a new Laravel project, and run php artisan serve, after a few seconds the server quits, and if I rerun it and go to 127.0.0.1, it gives me the error:

Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0
Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required 'C:\xampp\htdocs\new_project\server.php' (include_path='C:\xampp\php\PEAR') in Unknown on line 0

And it's deleted the server.php file in the new project.

• Windows 10
• Laravel 5.8.34
• PHP 7.3.8

• Composer 1.9.0

  ps : i haven't any antivirus installed

Answer 1

php artisan:serve will host the application on 127.0.0.1:8000

You can create a virtual host in C:\\xampp\\apache\\conf\\extra\\httpd-vhosts.conf .

<VirtualHost myproject.test:80>
  DocumentRoot "C:\xampp\htdocs\myproject\public"
  <Directory "C:\xampp\htdocs\myproject">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

And also edit your hosts file C:\\Windows\\System32\\drivers\\etc

Add the following line: 127.0.0.1 myproject.test