[url] How to get domain root url in Laravel 4?

I'm ready to scream how hard can this be? I've been trying for too long. If I have http://www.example.com/more/pages/page.php or similar I want to be able to get www.example.com.

Thats all. So I can use it as I please. This will of course change if on production or development so I want to ascertain it dynamically.

Request::root()

returns http://www.example.com/more/pages/page.php

URL::to('/')

returns http://www.example.com/more/pages/page.php

How do I get this? Why am I having so much trouble to do this??

In Laravel 5.1 and later you can use

request()->getHost();

or

request()->getHttpHost();

(the second one will add port if it's not standard one)

This is for Laravel 5.1 and I am not sure does it work for earlier versions but if somebody search on Google and lands here it might be handy in middleware handle function gets $request parameter:

$request->server->get('SERVER_NAME')

outside of middleware handle method you can access it by helper function request()

request()->server->get('SERVER_NAME')

You also may test any of these:

Request::server ("SERVER_NAME")
Request::server ("HTTP_HOST")

It seems better than making any treatment of

Request::root()

All right.

My hint:

1. FIND IF EXISTS in .env:

   APP_URL=http://yourhost.dev

2. REPLACE TO (OR ADD)

   APP_DOMAIN=yourhost.dev

3. FIND in config/app.php:

   'url' => env('APP_URL'),

4. REPLACE TO

   'domain' => env('APP_DOMAIN'),

   'url' => 'http://' . env('APP_DOMAIN'),

5. USE:

   Config::get('app.domain'); // yourhost.dev

   Config::get('app.url') // http://yourhost.dev

6. Do your magic!

use directly where you want controller or web.php

Request::getHost();

I think you can use asset('/')