Laravel command works locally but not on cPanel: “No commands defined in the 'leaves' namespace”

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I deployed my Laravel application to cPanel. On my local environment, running:

php artisan leaves:credit-monthly

works perfectly.

I then set up a cron job in cPanel to run this command, but I get the error:

ERROR There are no commands defined in the "leaves" namespace.

Interestingly, when I run in my localhost:

php artisan list

the leaves:credit-monthly command does appear in the list.

My setup:

Laravel custom command is in app/Console/Commands/CreditMonthlyLeaves.php

Kernel.php loads commands using:

php protected function commands(): void { $this->load(__DIR__.'/Commands'); }

What I’ve tried:

Verified the command exists on the server Cleared Laravel caches (php artisan config:clear, cache:clear, etc.) Checked capitalization — server is Linux, so it is case-sensitive Ran composer dump-autoload

Still, the cron fails with the “no commands” error.

Question:

What could cause a Laravel command to work locally but not via a cPanel cron, even though it shows up in php artisan list? How can I make it run reliably in cPanel?