Laravel 5.6安装laracast/flash并更新nesbot/carbon后启动服务报错

Hey there, let's work through these two issues step by step!

This error is stopping your local server from starting entirely, so let's tackle it first:

• Check if server.php exists
  Head over to your project root folder C:\xampp\htdocs\NC World\ProjectName and make sure there's a server.php file there. If it's missing, you can create one with the standard Laravel server.php content:

  <?php
  
  $uri = urldecode(
      parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH)
  );
  
  // This file allows us to emulate Apache's "mod_rewrite" functionality from the
  // built-in PHP web server. This provides a convenient way to test a Laravel
  // application without having installed a "real" web server software here.
  if ($uri !== '/' && file_exists(__DIR__.'/public'.$uri)) {
      return false;
  }
  
  require_once __DIR__.'/public/index.php';
  

• Fix the space in your project path
  Windows command line can struggle with paths that have spaces (like NC World). Try moving your project to a path without spaces, for example C:\xampp\htdocs\NCWorld\ProjectName, then run php artisan serve again from the new location.

• Verify file permissions
  Make sure your XAMPP Apache server has permission to read the server.php file. Right-click the file → Properties → Security tab → Add "Authenticated Users" and grant them Read & Execute permissions.

The weird characters and squares during the Carbon download are almost always a terminal encoding problem:

• Switch terminal to UTF-8
  Open your command prompt and run this command before using Composer:

  chcp 65001
  

  This switches the terminal to use UTF-8 encoding, which should display the text correctly. Then re-run your Composer commands (like composer update nesbot/carbon).

• Use Windows Terminal instead
  The default Windows CMD has poor UTF-8 support. Switching to Windows Terminal (you can install it from the Microsoft Store) will handle UTF-8 characters out of the box, so you won't see garbled text anymore.

• Double-check Composer config
  If the above don't work, you can add this to your project's composer.json to ensure smoother installs:

  "config": {
      "preferred-install": "dist",
      "platform-check": false
  }
  

  Then run composer dump-autoload to apply the changes.

内容的提问来源于stack exchange，提问作者Angnima Sherpa