If like me you tried the command php artisanHowever, you had the following “Could not open input file: artisan” error when starting the Laravel service using the above command.   How come “Could not open input file: artisan” error is showing up in Laravel There are a few causes behind this error. File doesn't exist Incorrect console location Missing correct permission for artisan Composer install   File doesn't exist Yep - I know, I shouldn't have to reference this one, but it's...

If you are like me you probably have searched for clues to and found little... particularly when confronted by the errors as you unravel how this works.  Okay a slight exaggeration, there are snipets of info that people have solved this annoying issue in  making comments work in Drupal 8 REST services. The lack of collective information in resolving issues has meant hours of debugging and working through core code to understand what is actually happening.  If you want to...