Laravel view not found exception

I have problem with laravel view is not found by route function I did composer dumpautoload but no use ArticleController.php

<?php
class ArticleController extends BaseController
 {
 public function showIndex()
 {
    return View::make('index');
 }

 public function showSingle($articleId)
 {
 return View::make('single');
 }
}


//Route
Route::get('index', 'ArticleController@showIndex');

InvalidArgumentException

View [index] not found.
open: /opt/lampp/htdocs/laravel-project/bootstrap/compiled.php

    foreach ((array) $paths as $path) {
    foreach ($this->getPossibleViewFiles($name) as $file) {
    if ($this->files->exists($viewPath = $path . '/' . $file)) {
    return $viewPath;
    }
    }
    }
    throw new \InvalidArgumentException("View [{$name}] not found.");
    }
    protected function getPossibleViewFiles($name)

Server/Request Data
REDIRECT_UNIQUE_ID  UfWlAn8AAQEAABR2VakAAAAF
REDIRECT_STATUS     200
UNIQUE_ID   UfWlAn8AAQEAABR2VakAAAAF
HTTP_HOST   localhost
HTTP_USER_AGENT     Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0
HTTP_ACCEPT     text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE    en-US,en;q=0.5
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING    gzip, deflate
HTTP_COOKIE     laravel_session=f94fpel78jn89nhah32mflqn15
HTTP_CONNECTION     keep-alive
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL  max-age=0
PATH    /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LD_LIBRARY_PATH     /opt/lampp/lib:/opt/lampp/lib
SERVER_SIGNATURE    
SERVER_SOFTWARE     Apache/2.4.4 (Unix) OpenSSL/1.0.1e PHP/5.4.16 mod_perl/2.0.8-dev Perl/v5.16.3
SERVER_NAME     localhost
SERVER_ADDR     127.0.0.1
SERVER_PORT     80
REMOTE_ADDR     127.0.0.1
DOCUMENT_ROOT   /opt/lampp/htdocs
REQUEST_SCHEME  http
CONTEXT_PREFIX  
CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT   /opt/lampp/htdocs
SERVER_ADMIN    [email protected]
SCRIPT_FILENAME     /opt/lampp/htdocs/laravel-project/public/index.php
REMOTE_PORT     50211
REDIRECT_URL    /laravel-project/public/index
GATEWAY_INTERFACE   CGI/1.1
SERVER_PROTOCOL     HTTP/1.1
REQUEST_METHOD  GET
QUERY_STRING    
REQUEST_URI     /laravel-project/public/index
SCRIPT_NAME     /laravel-project/public/index.php
PHP_SELF    /laravel-project/public/index.php
REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT  1375053058.123
REQUEST_TIME    1375053058

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

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.

This command works for me

php artisan config:cache

As Laravel doc says that by default, Laravel is configured to use the file cache driver, which stores the serialized, cached objects in the filesystem. So it needs to recache the file system so that newly added views and route are available to show. I also not sure why laravel needs to recache actually

This might be possible that your view is present even though it shows the error. So to solve this issue you need to stop the server and run this command on the terminal.

php artisan config:cache

then restart the server

In my case I had to run php artisan optimize:clear in order to make everything to work again.