Laravel blank white screen

My Laravel site was working before, I recently upgraded to Apache 2.4 and PHP 5.5.7.

Now I'm getting a white blank screen when I go to `laravel.mydomain.example`, nothing in Apache error logs, routes and etc. should be fine as it worked before.

`.htaccess` is loading as I get a 500 when I insert an invalid line to `/var/sites/laravel/public/.htaccess`.

Heres my `.htaccess`:

$ cat /var/sites/laravel/public/.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<IfModule mod_negotiation.c>
Options -MultiViews
</IfModule>

RewriteEngine On

# Redirect Trailing Slashes...
RewriteRule ^(.*)/$ /$1 [L,R=301]

# Handle Front Controller...
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Heres my virtual host directive:

DocumentRoot "/var/sites/laravel/public"
ServerName laravel.mydomain.example
<Directory "/var/sites/laravel/public">
AllowOverride All
allow from all
Options +Indexes
Require all granted
</Directory>

And apachectl -S

$ /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl -S
VirtualHost configuration:
*:* is a NameVirtualHost
default server mydomain.example (/usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:25)
port * namevhost mydomain.example (/usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf:25)
port * namevhost laravel.mydomain.example (/usr/local/apache2/conf/extra/httpd- vhosts.conf:34)
ServerRoot: "/usr/local/apache2"
Main DocumentRoot: "/var/www"
Main ErrorLog: "/usr/local/apache2/logs/error_log"
Mutex rewrite-map: using_defaults
Mutex default: dir="/usr/local/apache2/logs/" mechanism=default
PidFile: "/usr/local/apache2/logs/httpd.pid"
Define: DUMP_VHOSTS
Define: DUMP_RUN_CFG
User: name="daemon" id=1 not_used
Group: name="daemon" id=1 not_used

Other problem with the same behavior is use Laravel 3 with PHP 5.5.x. You have to change some laravel function's name "yield() because is a reserved word in php 5.5

I have some issues to setup it in a Vagrant machine. Whats really works for me was execute a:

`chmod -R o+w app/storage/`

from inside the Vagrant machine.

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Another thing that may cause the WSOD is missing the 'return' keyword, as in:

`return View::make('yourview');`

as opposed to

`View::make('yourview');`

An update to fideloper's answer for Laravel 5 and its new file structure is:


$ sudo chmod -R o+w storage/

In my case, restarting apache fixed the problem.
for Ubuntu / Debian:

sudo service apache2 restart

Try this, in the public/index.php page

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('error_reporting', E_ALL);
ini_set("display_errors", 1);

This changes works for my localhost Ubuntu server 14.xx setting

# Apply all permission to the laravel 5.x site folders
$ sudo chmod -R 777 mysite

Also made changes on site-available httpd setting [Apache2 settings ][2]

Add settings:

Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
Require all granted


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Sometimes it's because laravel 5.1 require PHP >= 5.5.9. Update php will solve the problem.

Reason can be `Middleware` if you forget to put following code to the end of `handle` function

return $next($request);