I'm new to Laravel and I'm trying to use the Artisan command...
php artisan serve
It displays...
Laravel development server started: http://127.0.0.1:8000
However, it won't automatically launch and when I manually enter http://127.0.0.1:8000 it shows this error:
RuntimeException No application encryption key has been specified.
Any ideas? I'm using Laravel framework 5.5-dev.
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From Encryption - Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans:
"Before using Laravel's encrypter, you must set a key option in your config/app.php configuration file. You should use the
php artisan key:generate
command to generate this key"
I found that using this complex internet query in google.com:
"laravel add encrption key" (Yes, it worked even with the typo!)
A common issue you might experience when working on a Laravel application is the exception:
RuntimeException No application encryption key has been specified.
You'll often run into this when you pull down an existing Laravel application, where you copy the .env.example
file to .env
but don't set a value for the APP_KEY
variable.
At the command line, issue the following Artisan command to generate a key:
php artisan key:generate
This will generate a random key for APP_KEY
, After completion of .env
edit please enter this command in your terminal for clear cache:php artisan config:cache
Also, If you are using the PHP's default web server (eg. php artisan serve
) you need to restart the server changing your .env
file values. now you will not get to see this error message.
You can generate Application Encryption Key using this command:
php artisan key:generate
Then, create a cache file for faster configuration loading using this command:
php artisan config:cache
Or, serve the application on the PHP development server using this command:
php artisan serve
That's it!
Copy .env.example
to .env
:
cp -a .env.example .env
Generate a key:
php artisan key:generate
Only then run:
php artisan serve
simply run
php artisan key:generate
its worked for me
Simply run this command:
php artisan key:generate
cp .env.example .env
if there is no .env file present.
php artisan key:generate
command works for me. It generates the encryption key
Follow this steps:
php artisan key:generate
php artisan config:cache
php artisan serve
Open command prompt in the root folder of your project and run
php artisan key:generate
Then
php artisan config:cache
and Then
If you're getting the same error after having key-value, then just copy the APP_KEY value from .env file and paste it to config/app.php with 'key' => 'YOUR KEY',
and then again run
php artisan config:cache
I actually had to add a .env file to my project and then copy the contents of .env.example so that the key:generate
would work. Not sure why a .env file was not created when I started the project.
Sometimes If everything Fails Use this:
Goto: laravelProject/config/app.php
Find the line: 'key' =>
and check to what it refers,
It can either be one of two:
Case 1: env('APP_KEY')
Case 2: "somekeystring"
For Case 1:
Goto your .env file after you have run cp -a .env.example .env
Enter a random string like 10101010101010101010101010101010
Now, run php artisan key:generate
Your key will be updated automatically.
For Case 2:
set a random string like for value of Key 10101010101010101010101010101010
Now, run php artisan key:generate
Your key will be updated automatically.
In 3 steps:
Generate new key php artisan key:generate
Clear the config php artisan config:clear
Update cache php artisan config:cache
Okay, I'll write another instruction, because didn't find the clear answer here. So if you faced such problems, follow this:
You should not just create empty .env file, but fill it with content of .env.example.
php artisan key:generate
Application key [base64:wbvPP9pBOwifnwu84BeKAVzmwM4TLvcVFowLcPAi6nA=] set successfully.
APP_KEY=base64:wbvPP9pBOwifnwu84BeKAVzmwM4TLvcVFowLcPAi6nA=
php artisan config:cache
That's it.
I had to restart my queue worker using php artisan queue:restart
after running php artisan key:generate
to get jobs working.
I found that most answers are incomplete here. In case anyone else is still looking for this:
In my case, while cloning the project from git there was no .env
file. So I copy the .env
file from the source project and paste in my current project and change its configuration of database and it run successfully.
In my case, I also needed to reset the cached config files:
php artisan key:generate
php artisan config:cache
If you git clone some project then this kind of issue may usually occur.
.env
filephp artisan key:generate
and then it should generate APP_KEY in .envphp artisan serve
and it should be working.I ran into this issue when I manually copied the contents of my Laravel project (say sites/oldname) into a new directory on my Mac (say, sites/newname). Since I was manually dragging and droppping, it didn't grab the hidden files, namely, '.env'. When I looked more closely at sites/oldname I saw .editorconfig, .env, .env.example, .gitatrributes, .styleci.yml, etc.
The error went away once I copied the hidden files to the new directory.
So, "No Application Encryption Key Has Been Specified" is Laravel speak for "your .env file is missing."
php artisan key:generate
php artisan config:cache
worked for me, but it had to be done in a command prompt on Windows.
Doing it inside the terminal in PHPStorm didn't worked.
Open command prompt in the root folder of your project and run below command:
php artisan key:generate
It will generate Application Key for your application.
You can find the generated application key(APP_KEY) in .env
file.
Source: Stackoverflow.com