How to generate env file for laravel

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From the documentation I see it s possible to create a laravel project via laravel installer    laravel new blog   or via composer    composer create-project laravel laravel --prefer-dist   If I try the first way  env file is not created  How can I ask laravel artisan or composer to create a  env file for me

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If the  env a file is missing  then there is another way to generate a  env file  You can download env example  rename it to  env and edit it  Just set up correct DB credentials etc   Don t forget to When you use the php artisan key generate it will generate the new key to your  env file

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This is an old thread  but as it still gets viewed and recently active  26  days ago as of this post  here is a quick solution   There is no  env file initially  you must duplicate  env example as  env    In windows  you can open a command prompt aka the CLI and paste the exact code below while inside the root directory of the project  Must include the   at the start line without space     echo APP NAME Laravel echo APP ENV local echo APP KEY  echo APP DEBUG true echo APP URL http   localhost echo  echo LOG CHANNEL stack echo  echo DB CONNECTION mysql echo DB HOST 127 0 0 1 echo DB PORT 3306 echo DB DATABASE homestead echo DB USERNAME homestead echo DB PASSWORD secret echo  echo BROADCAST DRIVER log echo CACHE DRIVER file echo SESSION DRIVER file echo SESSION LIFETIME 120 echo QUEUE DRIVER sync echo  echo REDIS HOST 127 0 0 1 echo REDIS PASSWORD null echo REDIS PORT 6379 echo  echo MAIL DRIVER smtp echo MAIL HOST smtp mailtrap io echo MAIL PORT 2525 echo MAIL USERNAME null echo MAIL PASSWORD null echo MAIL ENCRYPTION null echo  echo PUSHER APP ID  echo PUSHER APP KEY  echo PUSHER APP SECRET  echo PUSHER APP CLUSTER mt1 echo  echo MIX PUSHER APP KEY    PUSHER APP KEY   echo MIX PUSHER APP CLUSTER    PUSHER APP CLUSTER     gt   env    Just press enter to exit the prompt and you should have the  env file with the default settings created in the same directory you typed above CLI command   Hope this helps

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env files are hidden by Netbeans  To show them do this   Tools   Options   Miscellaneous   Files  Under Files Ignored be the IDE is Ignored Files Pattern   The default is     CVS SCCS vssver    scc            svn             htaccess git   hgignore         Add env to the excluded-not-excluded bit    CVS SCCS vssver    scc            svn             env htaccess git   hgignore         Files named  env now show

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In windows OS  you can open command prompt  change directory to your project directory  Example  My project directory   E  xampp htdocs my project    You can type into your Command prompt like this  hit enter each line    E   cd xampp htdocs my project   Then you can type    copy  env example  env   If you are using Linux  you can type cp  instead of copy

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If you have trouble viewing the  env file or it is not showing up in the project just do this  ls -a  This allows to see the hidden files in Linux  You can also open the folder with Visual Studio Code and you will see the files and be able to modify them

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Just tried both ways and in both ways I got generated  env file     Composer should automatically create  env file  In the post-create-project-cmd section of the composer json you can find    post-create-project-cmd        php -r   copy   env example     env           php artisan key generate      Both ways use the same composer json file  so there shoudn t be any difference   I suggest you to update laravel installer to the last version  1 2 and try again   composer global require  laravel installer  1 2      You can always generate  env file manually by running   cp  env example  env php artisan key generate

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There s another explanation for why  env doesn t exist  and it happens when you move all the Laravel files  Take this workflow  in your project directory you do laravel new whatever  Laravel is installed in whatever  you do mv      to move all the files to your project folder  and you remove whatever  The problem is  mv doesn t move hidden files by default  so the  env files are left behind  and are removed

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in console  cmd   go to app root path and execute   type  env example  gt   env

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I had this problem of no  env files showing up in the project    Turns out the IDE I was using  Netbeans  try not to judge  will show certain types of  hidden files but not all    After racking my brains for a bit I checked the file system and found the  env    env example files   modified them with a text editor    Leaving this answer for the rare situation someones using a dodgy IDE like myself

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create  env using command    composer run post-root-package-install or sudo composer run post-root-package-install

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