Laravel default error pages are different in server [minimal.blade vs illustrated.blade]

It looks like the default 404 error view in vendor/ changed in Laravel 5.8 from the illustrated layout to the minimal layout, perhaps to have a less opinionated default.

I recommend creating your own view under resources/views/errors/404.blade.php if you want the previous view back. You can copy the illustrated view directly from the 5.7 version if that's what you wanted to display: https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/5.7/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Exceptions/views/404.blade.php

The illustrated layouts are still available, they're just not the default anymore.

Copying the old view is essentially the same as running php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-errors and editing the 5 lines as @Constantin noted, but since the original was only 8 lines of code to begin with it really doesn't matter which method you chose. The basic idea is the same: explicitly define your view in resources/ instead of falling back to the vendor/ defaults supplied by the framework (which may change).

Maybe late, but you could also re-publish the files from the 5.8 version without copying them from 5.7 or creating new ones:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag=laravel-errors

All blade templates should be available again under views/errors.

In the views I just had to change

@extends('errors::minimal')

into

@extends('errors::illustrated-layout')

and add

@section('image')
<div style="background-image: url({{ asset('/svg/403.svg') }});" class="absolute pin bg-cover bg-no-repeat md:bg-left lg:bg-center">
</div>
@endsection