WAMP Laravel - Sending API requests from one local site to another mixes up environment variables

Question

I am developing an API service that another site I've developed will be using. So locally when building and testing, obviously I want both local copies of the site to work. However, it seems to mix up the environment variables.

For example:

• Site A has APP_URL=http://a.local
• Site B has APP_URL=http://b.local
• I send a GET Request (using Guzzle) from Site A code to http://b.local/test
• The /test endpoing in Site B simply dumps out dump(env('APP_URL'))
• Result retrieved by Site A is "http://a.local"
• Expected result: "http://b.local"

So the code in Site B is running with environment variables loaded from Site A. This is an issue as Site B cannot access the correct database, it's trying to use the Site A's database.

Is this an issue with my local setup (Win10 + WAMP), PHP settings, Laravel settings?

Answer 1

I also encountered this issue, and it is mentioned here. The resolution for it is to run php artisan config:cache in both projects to cache configuration from .env files or patch the code from here.

Answer 2

are you using artisan commands to run both projects with different ports ?

php artisan serve --port=8000

php artisan serve --port=8010 

Answer 3

Apart from @Daniel Protopopov answer above there is also another way, that is also works when both Site A and Site B are Lumen.

In short just rename your DB_DATABASE variable on each side to a different name. Then change the respective variable names in the respective config/<configfilename>.php files.

So that on Site A you would have SITE_A_DB_DATABASE in .env and matching 'database' => env('API_A_DB_DATABASE', 'forge'), line in config/database.php.

Then your Site B SITE_B_DB_DATABASE will not be overwritten due to variable names are different.

The same solution applies for any .env variables which names match.

Answer 4

Because the command php artisan config:cache doesn't work here (closure needed in routes file config file)

LogicException  : Your configuration files are not serializable.

I add phpdotenv with composer :

composer require vlucas/phpdotenv

And at the begginning of the file "/bootstrap/app.php" (after "new Illuminate\Foundation\Application"), I add :

$app->detectEnvironment(function () {
    $dotenv = Dotenv\Dotenv::create(__DIR__ . '/../', '.env');
    $dotenv->overload();
});

Maybe an alternative

Answer 5

If you are calling a Lumen 8 API from within a Laravel 6 application using GuzzleHttp and the Laravel env is being inherited to Lumen, creating config file worked for me.

In bootstrap/app.php comment below lines to prevent loading current env values from Laravel

// (new Laravel\Lumen\Bootstrap\LoadEnvironmentVariables(
//     dirname(__DIR__)
// ))->bootstrap();

In bootstrap/app.php add below line after $app has been created.

$app->configure('database');

Create config/database.php in lumen root folder. Return all env values needed for Lumen api in an array in the config file.

<?php
return [
'timezone' => 'UTC',
'default' => 'pdbmysql',
'connections' => [
    'pdbmysql' => [
        'driver'    => 'mysql',
        'host'      => 'localhost',
        'port'      => '3306',
        'database'  => 'db2',
        'username'  => 'root',
        'password'  => 'root',
    ],

],
];

Answer 6

You can set Environment variables in either the vhost config OR in an .htaccess file:

SetEnv APP_URL http://b.local