Laravel no servidor Locaweb: Unexpected Character in input: ' (ASCII=92) state=1

Question

I’m staying at the Locaweb and is making this mistake.

Warning: Unexpected Character in input: ' (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/Storage/a/B7/B3/reciclaoleovegetal/public_html/public/index.php on line 52

Parse error: syntax error, Unexpected T_STRING in /home/Storage/a/B7/B3/reciclaoleovegetal/public_html/public/index.php on line 52

Answer 1

Messages like:

Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1

And:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING

Indicate two possibilities, either you edited something you shouldn’t and broke the script, or you’re using older version of PHP that doesn’t support Laravel.

By message Unexpected character in input: '\' you must be using PHP 5.2, because namespaces only work after 5.3

But it is important to know that the use of ::class, that this in line 52 of index.php does not work in neither PHP 5.3:

$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);

To make sure the version create a file called info.php in public_html and add this:

<?php
echo 'Versão Atual do PHP: ' . phpversion();

It will display the details of your PHP version, so you will be sure if it is 7.1, if it is in fact 7.1 then it means that either you damaged index.php or it failed to upload.

If the version is correct and index.php is like this:

<?php

define('LARAVEL_START', microtime(true));

require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

$app = require_once __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

$kernel = $app->make(Illuminate\Contracts\Http\Kernel::class);

$response = $kernel->handle(
    $request = Illuminate\Http\Request::capture()
);

$response->send();

$kernel->terminate($request, $response);

Then the problem is in the upload, if you are using Filezilla, maybe your FTP is breaking something while trying to climb as ASCII, so that it does not lose data upload as binary, for example in Filezilla go to:

Transfer > Transfer type > and change Auto for Binary

As in the image:

Then upload it again.