Laravel app URL not working correctly when sending out mails

Question

I have mails that get sent out using a cron on a centos box. The cron calls console/kernal.php where the function get's called to send out the mail

When sending the mail out from within a browser the urls in the mail are correct but when sending with the cron it changes the urls to localhost

I have this in my env file

APP_URL = example.com

And in my config/app.php I have this

'url' => env('APP_URL', 'example.com'),

I've done everything to book I believe. If I change the the url env var to http://example.com then the emails get sent out with the right url's but then entire site then get's redireted to http://http//example.com

What is going wrong here. Please help

EDIT

Stupid dev mistake. I had a middelware that was redirecting if the host did not match so it would then redirect to http://http//example.com

For any stumbling upon this and my own reference, check middelware. Sorry to the guys who tried to help.

Answer 1

Use full URL with protocol (not only domain) in .env

APP_URL=http://example.com

And in config/app.php

'url' => env('APP_URL', 'http://example.com'),