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Hi,
I have the following systems on the same machine:
Turned out that when the client makes an API call somehow the environments are mixed, so I get the database env settings from system2(Client) in system1(Server). I know I can resolve the issue when I separate them using vagrant or sth like that so they behave like different systems, but how do I make it work if they have to be on the same machine.
Is the 2 system separated Laravel workbench packages? When you said environment is it the Operating System Environment Variables?
If the question separating database connection then please take a look laravel docs. You can use multiple databases.
Or this http://fideloper.com/laravel-multiple-database-connections
No. System 1 and System 2 are totally separate systems. They both run on the same machine.
When you execute a script on server 2 that makes an API call to system 1, the env() function in the configuration file for system 1 loads the information in the .env file for system 2. Simply said System 1 .evn variables are modified with the .env variables in system 2.
it's a bit confusing.
So system2 should have loaded api calls with system 1 env. But system 1 is loading system 2 instead of using it's own env? Are you using Laravel 5 or 4.2?
If you followed configuration correctly it's probably a bug somewhere.
http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/configuration http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/configuration
PHP should have loaded system 1's environment instead of system 2. Because system 2 is just request and receive. The env of system 1 should be the one to load.
What is your Webserver and PHP 5 setup (nginx + php5-fpm / apache php5-fpm) ?
My wild guess is probably due to global override. Since both are using 1 php, conflicting variables will be overwritten by the last assignment.
http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.environment.php
If you can change the index to a different one, I think it will not conflict.
You should probably just run 2 virtual machines and share the same folder.
I'm having this issue with Laravel 5.3 now. I have one Laravel install that sends a cURL request to the other install. When both Laravel instances are used in the combined HTTP request the second app inherits the wrong DB_DATABASE value from the first project.
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