I'm on unfamiliar territory here, but try deleting/renaming the bootstrap/compiled.php file to start with.

It's created b running artisan optimize and just chucks all files into one to speed up loading etc.

If that doesn't make a difference, then I'd add the following to the top of app/routes.php:

Route::get('/', function(){
  return 'ok, routes.php seems to work';
});

That's a starting point at least.

Mei

Many thanks for the reply Mei, the compiled.php one is new to me, but that also had no success. I had thought I had tried the routes file being turned to basics - with no results, but doing that worked. So atleast I know that the basics of the framework are still functioning.

I will rebuild from here I guess, now that I know it works. Here was the original routes code (nothing hugely complex, but i'll have to deconstruct) +The /login route die was one of my failed attempts

$https = Config::get('app.ssl') ? 'https' : 'http';

Route::any('/', array('as' => 'home', $https, function()
{

	$app_text = require app_path().DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'lang'.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.Lang::getLocale().DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.'app.php';

	return View::make('home')->with(array(
		'app_text' => json_encode($app_text)
	));
}));
Route::any('/login', array('as' => 'home', $https, function()
{
	die();
}));
Route::get('/manifest.appcache', array($https, function()
{
	$enable_appcache = !Config::get('app.debug');

	$manifest = $enable_appcache ? View::make('live_manifest')->render() : View::make('dev_manifest')->render();	

	$response = Response::make($manifest, '200');
	$response->headers->set('Content-Type', 'text/cache-manifest');
	$response->headers->set('Cache-Control', 'no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate');
	$response->headers->set('Pragma', 'no-cache');
	$response->headers->set('Expires', '0');

	return $response;
}));

Route::post('/api/login', array($https, function()
{
	$creds = array('password' => Input::get('password'));

	if (Auth::attempt($creds)) {
		Auth::login(new User);
		return Response::json(array(
			'Sectors' => Sector::all()->toArray(),
			'Benefits' => Benefit::all()->toArray(),
			'Fuels' => Fuel::all()->toArray(),
			'FuelBenefitRatings' => FuelBenefitRating::all()->toArray()
		));
	} else {
		return Response::json( array('errors' => true));
	}
}));

For anyone interested beyond myself.. it seems the issue was with declaration of https/http in this way, set up by my colleague. I'll be using another method to achieve SSL.

Route::get('/', array('as' => 'home', $https, function()

and also, this line - which I'm not sure of the correct term for this? Anyone? I'm trying to enable this method on our new server, would appreciate any input.. at the moment a workaround is being used.

(new LanguageSetter)->setLanguage();