Cannot declare class App\Providers\AppServiceProvider, because the name is already in use

[ylynfatt]

Laravel Package Version

1.0.14

Laravel Version

12.18.0

PHP Version

8.3.19

System Info

macOS 15.6

Description

I was attempting to install Laravel Boost in an existing project and after selecting the code editors and AI guidelines, I got the following error:

PHP Fatal error: Cannot declare class App\Providers\AppServiceProvider, because the name is already in use in /Users/username/Herd/my-project/app/Http/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php on line 7

The AppServiceProvider class was already in my project.

Steps To Reproduce

Installed Boost via composer:

composer require laravel/boost --dev

Ran the boost install command:

php artisan boost:install

Selected editors: Claude Code, PHP Storm, VS Code.
Selected AI Guidelines: Claude Code.

Then I received the error.

[ylynfatt]

Seems the issue was that my existing AppServiceProvider was located in app/Http/Providers and Boost was expecting (and installing a new one) in app/Providers.