Quick App > Laravel issue (and solution)

[mark1502]

I tried the Quick App > Laravel feature and ran into the following error:

I was able to solve this problem by installing 7-Zip on my machine. After I installed 7-Zip, the quick app > laravel worked without a problem.

This was a new Win11 vm and I hadn't yet installed any zip program before this error appeared.

Anyway, just figured I'd notify you of this issue and how it was resolved on my machine.

Thanks

[leokhoa]

@mark1502 : Thanks for your solution. A similar issue has been reported, but I'm unable to reproduce it on my Windows 11 laptop. It could happen only on Windows VM. I wonder if removing the file 7z.exe from utils also works.

[mark1502]

I did some more testing.

First, I uninstalled 7-Zip and tried to do a quick app > laravel. As expected, it failed with the same error shown above.

Next, I installed ZipGenius, to see if having another zip utility in the path would fix it. It did not... same problem.

Then I followed your suggestion and removed (renamed) the 7z.exe file from utils. That did resolve the problem and I was again able to create a new laravel app using quick app > laravel.

I don't know why this might only happen on a Windows VM, unless maybe if Laragon is doing some low level calls that would go outside the vm?

If you're trying to reproduce it on your laptop and if you have 7-Zip installed, then uninstall 7-Zip and reboot the machine. After that, try the quick app to see if you can reproduce the error.

Anyway, hopefully this may be helpful so you can address this issue in the next release. I usually create new apps from the command line, but the quick app is a very nice feature, so I thought you'd like to know about it. Thanks

[ScottSewards]

I'm encountering this error too. I have a new Windows 11 laptop, and I am not using a virtual machine.

[rc6886]

I'm encountering this error too. I have a new Windows 11 laptop, and I am not using a virtual machine.

Same issue here. Running Windows 11 straight up without a VM. I also didn't have the "utils" folder in C:\laragon\bin.

Installing 7-Zip fixed the issue for me.

[KipchirchirIan]

I had the exact same problem when installing CodeIgniter 4 and just like what the others have said, installing 7zip fixed the issue.