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try clearing the config cache? php artisan config:clear
Mar 1, 2019
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Level 7
RuntimeException: No application encryption key has been specified 5.8
I downloaded a brand new install of laravel 5.8 before even doing any coding at all running phpunit on the ExampleTest is failing with a RuntimeException: No application encryption key has been specified.
and yes there is a key in my .env it generated when I did the new install. I even tried to remove the key and generated a new one. It's still failing...
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@SNAPEY - Yeah, I tried that as well with no such luck
Level 122
If thats no good, check the key with php artisan tinker and then config('app.key')
And if thats no good, check you have the right php encryption libaries
Level 7
I'm getting the key using tinker https://screencast.com/t/2i5ZH4b6R
Level 122
do you need a test .env ?
Level 9
Kinda interesting, I can reproduce this is I use the globally installed version of phpunit but it works fine using the local version
global producing error
/tmp/test$ phpunit
PHPUnit 7.5.6 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
.E 2 / 2 (100%)
Time: 169 ms, Memory: 18.00 MB
There was 1 error:
1) Tests\Feature\ExampleTest::testBasicTest
RuntimeException: No application encryption key has been specified.
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/EncryptionServiceProvider.php:44
/Users/rdelorier/.composer/vendor/illuminate/support/helpers.php:1027
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/EncryptionServiceProvider.php:48
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Encryption/EncryptionServiceProvider.php:24
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:791
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:671
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:619
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php:757
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:929
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:857
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:822
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:671
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:619
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php:757
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php:215
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Http/Kernel.php:189
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/Concerns/MakesHttpRequests.php:354
/private/tmp/test/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/Concerns/MakesHttpRequests.php:170
/private/tmp/test/tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php:17
/Users/rdelorier/.composer/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:208
/Users/rdelorier/.composer/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:164
ERRORS!
Tests: 2, Assertions: 1, Errors: 1.
But local version is fine:
/tmp/test$ ./vendor/bin/phpunit
PHPUnit 7.5.6 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
.. 2 / 2 (100%)
Time: 154 ms, Memory: 16.00 MB
OK (2 tests, 2 assertions)
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@RDELORIER - I never even thought to use a local version. It works for me as well. If you happen to get global working could you please let me know?
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@KENNYBJR87 - I was able to get global phpunit working by upgrading laravel/valet globally
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@RDELORIER - That indeed fixes it thank you!
Level 29
Do you have
<php>
<env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
</php>
In your phpunit.xml file? If yes, check your .env.testing or .env for APP_KEY
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Level 6
I've the same issue, still no luck
Level 4
For some reason on a recent project php artisan key:generate didn't actually insert the key to the .env automatically. So I did the following:
php artisan key:generate --show
then copied the displayed key over to APP_KEY=... in the .env. Voila, all good :)
Level 1
@Vehikl This worked for me.
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@snapey for me your answer is the best but unfortunately I am not allowed to click hit best anwser button for you.
Level 1
I had this issue completly random - from time to time the log sai "No application encryption Key .... " ... this error was annoying since the user was logged out or warped to the login page. So i what i found out was that the .env file was, for some reason, the issue of the problem. Either it was not available at the time the infos where needed or it was something else - i did what Vehikl did - created a new Key, copied it into the .env file and the i copied the key into the app.php as a default value for the key 'key' => env('APP_KEY','base64:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'). Until now it works perfect and since this is only a hack or a solving of symptoms but not the root cause, i really wonder why this issues was triggered - this never happend when i was using the local web server (php artisan serve) but with wamp maybe things are different?
Level 10
I think I may have a similar issue to @worgor - In 99.9% of cases, everything works fine, however, on a page which has many requests (e.g. a lot of images), 1 or 2 are failing sometimes with a MissingAppKeyException.
Really strange, I also saw in my logs that it was no only missing API key, it seemed to be other vars from env that were not being found. Again... only sometimes.
I wonder if it is the number of requests that is the issue.
Level 4
Using PHPunit and having phpunit.xml you can specify a key for testing purposes there :
<php>
<env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
<env name="APP_KEY" value="12345678901234567890123456789012"/>
<env name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
<env name="QUEUE_CONNECTION" value="sync"/>
<env name="ENV_FILE" value=".env.pipeline" />
</php>
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Level 1
if you added the key, but it still doesn't work - clear caches
php artisan optimize:clear
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