title: Error while running php artisan serve command on localhost
body: <p>I am having issues with <code>php artisan serve</code> command. I am working on one Laravel project and when I access the folder from browser it is working fine but when I run the <code>php artisan serve</code> command it shows me the following error:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Warning:
    require(E:\xampp\htdocs\www\LFS\public../vendor/autoload.php): failed
    to open stream: No such file or directory in
    E:\xampp\htdocs\www\LFS\public\index.php on line 24</p>
    
    <p>Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required 'E:\xampp\htdocs\www\LFS\public../vendor/autoload.php'
    (include_path='E:\xampp\php\PEAR') in
    E:\xampp\htdocs\www\LFS\public\index.php on line 24</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I am new to Laravel please let me know where I am going wrong. </p>
  
  <p>I have checked the code in the <strong>public/index.php</strong> file below is my code. I guess everything is fine I just copy-paste the same <strong>index.php</strong> file on my root folder.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php
  
  /**
   * Laravel - A PHP Framework For Web Artisans
   *
   * @package  Laravel
   * @author   Taylor Otwell &lt;taylor@laravel.com&gt;
   */
  
  define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));
  
  /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Register The Auto Loader
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  | Composer provides a convenient, automatically generated class loader for
  | our application. We just need to utilize it! We'll simply require it
  | into the script here so that we don't have to worry about manual
  | loading any of our classes later on. It feels great to relax.
  |
  */
  
  require __DIR__.'../vendor/autoload.php';
  
  /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Turn On The Lights
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  | We need to illuminate PHP development, so let us turn on the lights.
  | This bootstraps the framework and gets it ready for use, then it
  | will load up this application so that we can run it and send
  | the responses back to the browser and delight our users.
  |
  */
  
  $app = require_once __DIR__.'../bootstrap/app.php';
  
  /*
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  | Run The Application
  |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
  |
  | Once we have the application, we can handle the incoming request
  | through the kernel, and send the associated response back to
  | the client's browser allowing them to enjoy the creative
  | and wonderful application we have prepared for them.
  |
  */
  
  $kernel = $app-&gt;make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);
  
  $response = $kernel-&gt;handle(
      $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
  );
  
  $response-&gt;send();
  
  $kernel-&gt;terminate($request, $response);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want that the project can be directly accessible from the browser and should also run on the <code>php artisan serve</code> command.</p>