Laravel 5 Application Key

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I am new to Laravel  I just started it tonight  Actually  I have the following code     key    gt  env  APP KEY    SomeRandomString      In xampp htdocs laravel blog config app php  I want to change this key to 32-bit by cmd as   xampp htdocs laravel blog gt php artisan key generate    It generates the key but could not replace update in xampp htdocs laravel blog config app php

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This line in your app php   key    gt  env  APP KEY    SomeRandomString     is saying that the key for your application can be found in your  env file on the line APP KEY   Basically it tells Laravel to look for the key in the  env file first and if there isn t one there then to use  SomeRandomString    When you use the php artisan key generate it will generate the new key to your  env file and not the app php file   As kotapeter said  your  env will be inside your root Laravel directory and may be hidden  xampp htdocs laravel blog

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For me the problem was in that I had not yet ran composer update for this new project fork  The command failed silently  nothing happened   After running composer update it worked

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Just as another option if you want to print only the key  doesn t write the  env file  you can use   php artisan key generate --show

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From the line  key    gt  env  APP KEY    SomeRandomString     APP KEY is a global environment variable that is present inside the  env file  You can replace the application key if you trigger php artisan key generate  command  This will always generate the new key  The output may be like this   Application key  Idgz1PE3zO9iNc0E3oeH3CHDPX9MzZe3  set successfully    Application key  base64 uynE8re8ybt2wabaBjqMwQvLczKlDSQJHCepqxmGffE   set successfully   Base64 encoding should be the default in Laravel 5 4 Note that when you first create your Laravel application  key generate is automatically called  If you change the key be aware that passwords saved with Hash  make   will no longer be valid

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You can generate a key by the following command   php artisan key generate    The key will be written automatically in your  env file   APP KEY YOUR GENERATED KEY   If you want to see your key after generation use --show option  php artisan key generate --show   Note  The  env is a hidden file in your project folder

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