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Jun 20, 2018
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Do you need to make changes to your .env to deploy your application
Im trying to deploy my application on an apache server. it is connecting to the database but I wanted to know if I needed to alter my .env file or run a command (like php artisan serve) or if thats only when using it locally.
currently Im getting 404 errors and my endpoints wont work, although my local version is working.
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You don't need to run php artisan serve, because your server you should "serve" your application now. php artisan serve is only for local development ;)
You should of course update your .env file for your server based on the credentials for example the database or the APP_ENV.
If you get a 404 you might have an error in your application or something is wrong with the settings of apache
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@rin4ik He says he has apache... The whole tutorials is about nginx and third party tools... Not really sure how this is relevant!
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@bobbybouwmann ah , sorry!
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@bobbybouwmann I havent altered the app_env, what values should I put in for the APP_* section of the code?
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should I just change the APP_ENV to dev and APP_URL to the servers url?
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV=local
APP_KEY=
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_LOG_LEVEL=debug
APP_URL=http://localhost:8000
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APP_NAME=NameOfYourApp (this is used in emails and other things, so your company name?)
APP_ENV=production
APP_DEBUG=false
APP_URL=http://youractualsite.com/
and run php artisan key:generate so it will create a new APP_KEY
of course all of your db credentials, email credentials, etc., need to match the production server, as well as everything else that your project uses
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