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Find the error in the log

Laravel writes every error to a file. The last one usually says exactly what's wrong.

When a page shows a 500 error or stays blank, the reason is in storage/logs/, in laravel.log or, when the log is kept per day, in the newest laravel- file.

With SSH

cd /var/www/your-app
tail -n 60 storage/logs/laravel.log

The error you want is the last line that starts with a date.

With a hosting panel

  1. Open the File Manager and go to your site's storage/logs/ folder.
  2. Open the newest log file and scroll to the end.
  3. Copy the last error, from the line with the date down to the first few lines below it.

Reading an error

[2026-11-02 19:29:51] production.ERROR: file_put_contents(/var/www/your-app/storage/framework/cache/data/ac/9c/…): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
#0 …/Illuminate/Filesystem/Filesystem.php(204)
#1 …/Illuminate/Cache/FileStore.php(93)
  • The time and the level. production.ERROR means a real error on your live site.
  • The message. Here, Laravel couldn't write a cache file. That one is in Common errors.
  • The lines starting with #. Where it happened. The first few are enough for us.

Warning

Remove secrets before you send a log. Logs can hold email addresses, tokens and keys. Delete keys, passwords and tokens from anything you share.