Reloading env variables without restarting server Laravel 5 shared hosting

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My Laravel 5 has run OK until the database was configured  then found this error   SQLSTATE HY000   2002  php network getaddresses  getaddrinfo failed  Name or service not known   Doing some research it seems that I configured MySQL access too late  so I should restart the server in order to get the correct environment variables  Well  I m using Dreamhost s shared server and I just can t do that   How should I fix this issue   Thanks

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In config database php I changed the default DB connection from mysql to sqlite  I deleted the  env file  actually renamed it  and created the sqlite file with touch storage database sqlite  The migration worked with sqlite   Then I switched back the config database php default DB connection to mysql and recovered the  env file  The migration worked with mysql   It doesn t make sense I guess  Maybe was something serverside

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I know this is old  but for local dev  this is what got things back to a production  env file   rm bootstrap cache config php   then  php artisan config cache php artisan config clear php artisan cache clear

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To be clear there are 4 types of caches you can clear depending upon your case   php artisan cache clear   You can run the above statement in your console when you wish to clear the application cache  What it does is that this statement clears all caches inside storage framework cache   php artisan route cache   This clears your route cache  So if you have added a new route or have changed a route controller or action you can use this one to reload the same   php artisan config cache    This will clear the caching of the env file and reload it  php artisan view clear    This will clear the compiled view files of your application   For Shared Hosting  Most of the shared hosting providers don t provide SSH access to the systems  In such a case you will need to create a route and call the following line as below   Route  get   clear-cache   function         Artisan  call  cache clear        return  All cache cleared

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If you have run php artisan config cache on your server  then your Laravel app could cache outdated config settings that you ve put in the  env file   Run php artisan config clear to fix that

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It s possible that your configuration variables are cached  Verify your config app php as well as your  env file then try  php artisan cache clear   on the command line

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A short solution   use Dotenv   with new Dotenv app  - gt environmentPath    app  - gt environmentFile    - gt overload    with new LoadConfiguration   - gt bootstrap app       In my case I needed to re-establish database connection after altering  env programmatically  but it didn t work   If you get into this trouble try this   app  db  - gt purge  connection- gt getName        after reloading  env   that s because Laravel App could have accessed the default connection before and the  Illuminate Database DatabaseManager needs to re-read config parameters

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In case anybody stumbles upon this question who cannot reload their webserver  long running console command like a queue runner  or needs to reload their  env file mid-request  i found a way to properly reload  env variables in laravel 5   use Dotenv  use InvalidArgumentException   try       Dotenv  makeMutable        Dotenv  load app  - gt environmentPath    app  - gt environmentFile         Dotenv  makeImmutable      catch  InvalidArgumentException  e

[php] Reloading .env variables without restarting server (Laravel 5, shared hosting)

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