Hey everyone, I’m having trouble with my PHP project in XAMPP. When I try to run it, I get this error:
Warning: Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
Fatal error: Failed opening required file
It’s happening in the bootstrap.php file. The specific line causing the issue is:
require VENDOR . 'autoload.php';
I’ve checked, and the path it’s looking for is: E:\xampp\htdocs\complete-php7-ecom-website-master\vendor\autoload.php
But it can’t find the file. Any ideas what might be going wrong? I’m pretty sure I installed all the dependencies. Could it be a path issue? Thanks for any help!
Hey Steve89, that’s a tricky one! Have you double-checked your file permissions? Sometimes XAMPP can be finicky about that, especially on Windows. Maybe try right-clicking on your project folder and make sure it’s not set to read-only?
Also, I’m curious - are you using any version control like Git? If so, did you maybe .gitignore the vendor folder? That could explain why it’s missing.
Oh, and random thought - have you tried running composer dump-autoload? Sometimes that can fix weird autoloading issues.
Let us know if any of that helps! What’s your project about, by the way? Always interested to hear what cool stuff people are working on!
It sounds like you might be missing the Composer autoloader. Have you run composer install in your project directory? This command generates the autoload.php file in the vendor folder. If you haven’t used Composer before, you’ll need to install it first. Then, navigate to your project root in the command line and run the install command. This should create the missing file. If that doesn’t work, double-check your composer.json file to ensure all dependencies are correctly listed. Also, verify that your VENDOR constant is correctly defined in your project’s configuration. Sometimes path issues can occur if you’re using relative paths instead of absolute ones.