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Styphon
Styphon

Reputation: 10447

Setting the environment in Laravel 5

I'm trying to change the environment in my app from local to production. I've modified the .env file but whenever I run a query it's not using the config I have in config/database.php, or the database settings in .env, but the default homestead @ localhost. How can I change the environment to production?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2709

Answers (3)

arun
arun

Reputation: 51

Put the following line into your boostrap/app.php

  $app->loadEnvironmentFrom('.local.env');

you can change the file name here ('.local.env') what environment file need to run

Upvotes: 1

Styphon
Styphon

Reputation: 10447

As per my comment all I needed to do was restart the server, in my case artisan serve. It only loads the environment when starting, so any changes don't take effect whilst it's running.

Upvotes: 0

ConfusedDevelopment
ConfusedDevelopment

Reputation: 178

In Laravel 5 the .env file is the file you need to edit. The DB values are stored there.

This file should be in .gitignore as there is a .env.example

change the 

APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_KEY=yourkey

DB_HOST=tost
DB_DATABASE=db
DB_USERNAME=un
DB_PASSWORD=pwd

CACHE_DRIVER=file
SESSION_DRIVER=file

to look like that on your production environment as it no longer uses the values in config/database

files in that config dir should keep config that is the same across environments

Upvotes: 0

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