Laravel/Symfony: unable to load the "app" configuration file
I don't have an answer for why this happened, but I did code up an alternative to using Finder in the LoadConfiguration::getConfigurationFiles function (within \vendor\laravel\framework\src\Illuminate\Foundation\Bootstrap\LoadConfiguration.php) which allows me to run php artisan commands without any issues...
protected function getConfigurationFiles(Application $app){ $files = []; $configPath = realpath($app->configPath()); $file = new \DirectoryIterator($configPath); while($file->valid()) { if(!$file->isDot() && ($file->getExtension() == 'php')) { $directory = $this->getNestedDirectory($file, $configPath); $files[$directory.basename($file->getRealPath(), '.php')] = $file->getRealPath(); } $file->next(); } ksort($files, SORT_NATURAL); return $files;}Hope that helps someone.