The MAC is invalid. error when i open my website

This should help you out: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/daeling-with-decryptexceptioninvalid-data

acutaly clearing cache and clearing cookie of browser make my prblm clear.... now no error.... @bobbybouwmann

I am also getting "The MAC is invalid - DecryptException in BaseEncrypter.php line 48". I have cleared artisan cache, composer cache, dumped the autoload, emptied the browser cache and still nothing.

Decryption is working on my production server and also on my other PC, but not on my laptop. All files are the same, the database is the same and the APP_KEY is the same in the .env file.

I am using MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128 as the cipher in my config/app.php file

This is weird, but if I hard-code the 'key' in config/app.php then everything works, but if I let it load the key using env('APP_KEY') then the error appears again.

The .env file is definitely being loaded and so is the APP_KEY. I can verify this using dd(env('APP_KEY')) in my routes file.

@stuartcusack That's indeed odd. Did you try to remove the cache files physically? So in your storage directory

I am having the same issue, now that I am trying to clone my project from Github to my production server using the exact same variables.

Going through these steps

composer dump-autoload

composer clear-cache

php artisan cache:clear

php artisan view:clear

I get [Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\DecryptException] The MAC is invalid. when I try to cache:clear.

Any tips?

https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/the-mac-is-invalid-decryptexception-in-baseencrypterphp-line-48

clearing browser cache helped me...