Laravel view not found exception

This error also occurs when you try to move the whole project directory to other path. And you happened to run the following commands below BEFORE you move.

php artisan optimize --force
php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache

Mine error message shows like this enter image description here

As you can see the old path was written in the compiled.php. So, to fix the problem. Simply run the same command AGAIN under the project folder in your new folder location.

php artisan optimize --force
php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache

Hope this helps.


This happens when Laravel doesn't find a view file in your application. Make sure you have a file named: index.php or index.blade.php under your app/views directory.

Note that Laravel will do the following when calling View::make:

  • For View::make('index') Laravel will look for the file: app/views/index.php.
  • For View::make('index.foo') Laravel will look for the file: app/views/index/foo.php.

The file can have any of those two extensions: .php or .blade.php.