Reputation: 15489
I recently was reading this Stack Overflow post
When to generating a New Application Key in Laravel?
where colleagues mentioned that you can run:
php artisan key:generate
and this will generate a new APP_KEY for your cloned Laravel project. This being a legitimate concern when collaborating and using Github for version control, however, when I tried to run that command I got this error:
ldco2016@DCortes-MacBook-Pro-3 ~/Projects/photogallery (master)$ php artisan key:generate [ruby-2.2.1]
PHP Warning: require(/Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
PHP Stack trace:
PHP 1. {main}() /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/artisan:0
PHP 2. require() /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/artisan:16
Warning: require(/Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
Call Stack:
0.0002 240112 1. {main}() /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/artisan:0
0.0003 242776 2. require('/Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/autoload.php') /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/artisan:16
PHP Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:') in /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
PHP Stack trace:
PHP 1. {main}() /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/artisan:0
PHP 2. require() /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/artisan:16
Fatal error: require(): Failed opening required '/Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/../vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:') in /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/autoload.php on line 17
Call Stack:
0.0002 240112 1. {main}() /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/artisan:0
0.0003 242776 2. require('/Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/bootstrap/autoload.php') /Users/ldco2016/Projects/photogallery/artisan:16
So its not so straightforward and error free. Can anyone lend a hand as to how to generate a new APP_KEY when working on a cloned Laravel project?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 554
Reputation: 23034
You must first install composer and run composer install
so that laravel can access the commands.
Upvotes: 1