Laravel 5 environment is always 'Production' when it is infact 'Local'

Question

I am trying to set up two environments: local and production.

So far, I have added a bootstrap/environment.php file which is:

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(
    'local' => array('Ben'),
    'staging' => array('staging.domain.org'),
    'production' => array('domain.org'),
));

and two .env files - .local.env and .production.env with the different environment variables such as: APP_ENV=local and APP_DEBUG=true .

My laptop's hostname is called Ben .

The problem I'm having is the php artisan env always returns Production and thus, I can't load my application.

Also, within the production.env file, if I change the APP_DEBUG variable to true or false, it doesn't make a difference on the web application - it always returns "Whoops, looks like something went wrong.".

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Answer 1

I had that problem. I am using Laravel 5.2.14 with homestead. I fixed the problem adding this line:

'env' => env('APP_ENV', 'production'),

in the file: config\\app.php

I upgraded my Laravel app from a previous version which did not contain that line or at least I did not have it. Latest file version in:

https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/config/app.php

Answer 2

The bootstrap/environment.php file is not loaded in Laravel 5.1 anymore. Laravel does not load different env files depending on the environment.

Laravel now only loads a single .env file. This file should not be in your version control. For your production server, you'll simply put different values into the .env file.

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For more information, read the docs .

Answer 3

This bugged the hell out of me in Laravel 5. The way I fixed it was by adding the following to the end of bootstrap/app.php:

    $app->detectEnvironment(function () use($app) {
        $env = env('APP_ENV', 'local');
        $file = ".env.{$env}";
        $app->loadEnvironmentFrom($file);
    });

Then add files for each environment, eg .env.local, .env.production etc.

You can now swicth environment files by setting the APP_ENV environment variable. The code defaults to '.env.local' if APP_ENV is not set. Test this works with:

    $ APP_ENV=production ./artisan env
    Current application environment: production

    $ ./artisan env
    Current application environment: local

Laravel automatically sets APP_ENV to 'testing' when running phpunit (specifically in the Foundation/Testing/TestCase class), so make sure you have a '.env.testing' file if you want to use different database settings etc when running tests.

Answer 4

For Laravel >= 5.1

It's because your environment is configured wrong or your .env file was not correctly set.
Try this

php artisan config:clear

Maybe that help you.

Regards!

Answer 5

Go to your .env file in laravel and set your

PAYTM_ENVIRONMENT=production

PAYTM_MERCHANT_ID={// Your production MID}

PAYTM_MERCHANT_KEY={// Your production Merchant key}

PAYTM_MERCHANT_WEBSITE=DEFAULT

PAYTM_CHANNEL=WEB