title: Laravel not working exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'No supported encrypter found
body: <p>I am trying to put my laravel project "live" but I am failing. I will start at the begin I got a VPS installed a <code>LAMP stack</code>, <code>installed composer</code> and <code>VSFTPD</code>. Went to /var/www/html and did a <code>git clone of my repo</code>. Changed apache to point to the correct directory, <code>chmoded the storage folder</code> and finally went to my server in the browser and got greeted by 2 <code>Whoops, looks like something went wrong</code>. After that I decided to check <code>storage/logs/laravel.log</code> and saw the following error:</p>
  
  <p><code>exception 'RuntimeException' with message 'No supported encrypter found. The cipher and / or key length are invalid.' in /var/www/html/laravel/bootstrap/cache/compiled.php:7658</code></p>
  
  <p>and decided to do a <code>php artisan key:generate</code> and got this output <code>Application key [base64:(key was here but removed it here for obvious reasons)] set successfully.</code>. And checked again and got greeted by the same 2 <code>Whoops, looks like something went wrong</code>. </p>
  
  <p>Right now i have no idea what to do anymore any help is greatly appreciated.</p>