laravel enviroment when on command line different to in browser - amazon-web-services

Question

I have deployed my laravel app to an elastic beanstalk enviroment. This app detects its environment with this piece of code in bootstrap/start.php
$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function () {
return getenv('APP_ENV') ?: 'local';
});
When elastic beanstalk starts it runs its configuration files which I have set up to detect if a parameter is set. in this case I have set this parameter to development and the configuration files then set enviroment variables based on this namely
APP_ENV = development
DB_HOST = rds dev endpoint
DB_NAME = rds dev db name
DB_USERNAME = dev username
DB_PASSWORD = devdb pass
When I visit the app in the browser it is working as intended and it is correctly connecting to the dev db.
When I ssh into the server and try to run
php artisan migrate
I get a pdo exception no such file or directory
when I run
php artisan env
local is returned even though the environment variable APP_ENV is defined. I am doubly sure that this variable is defined because when laravel errors in the browser I can see the variable with the value development in the server/request data along with the other environment variables that are created on environment launch
what am I missing?
edited to include personalised solution based on antonios answer
.environment
<?php
if (getenv('PARAM1') === false) {
return false;
} else {
switch (getenv('PARAM1')) {
case 'development':
return array(
'APP_ENV' => 'development',
'DB_HOST' => '***',
'DB_NAME' => '***',
'DB_USERNAME' => '***',
'DB_PASSWORD' => '***',
);
break;
case 'staging':
return array(
'APP_ENV' => 'staging',
'DB_HOST' => '***',
'DB_NAME' => '***',
'DB_USERNAME' => '***',
'DB_PASSWORD' => '***',
);
break;
case 'production':
return array(
'APP_ENV' => 'production',
'DB_HOST' => '***',
'DB_NAME' => '***',
'DB_USERNAME' => '***',
'DB_PASSWORD' => '***',
);
break;
}
}
start.php
$env = require __DIR__.'/../.environment';
if ($env !== false) {
foreach ($env as $key => $value) {
putenv(sprintf('%s=%s', $key, $value));
}
}
$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function () {
return getenv('APP_ENV') ?: 'local';
});

Answer 1

When you run
php artisan migrate
php runs under a different user, not your web server, so you need to:
php artisan migrate --env=development
EDIT
Having trouble with cli and web is one of the reasons why I don't use those web servers env vars. This is how I do my environments:
Create a .environment file in the root of your application and define your environment:
<?php
return array(
'APP_ENV' => 'development',
'POSTGRESQL.HOST' => 'localhost',
'POSTGRESQL.DATABASE_NAME' => 'laraveldatabase',
'POSTGRESQL.DATABASE_USER' => 'laraveluser',
'POSTGRESQL.DATABASE_PASSWORD' => '!Bassw0rT',
);
Add it to your .gitignore application file, so you don't risk having your passwords sent to Github.
Right before $app->detectEnvironment, load the .environment file to PHP environment:
foreach(require __DIR__.'/../.environment' as $key => $value)
{
putenv(sprintf('%s=%s', $key, $value));
}
And then you just have to use it:
$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function () {
return getenv('APP_ENV');
});
It will work everywhere:
<?php
return array(
'connections' => array(
'postgresql' => array(
'driver' => 'pgsql',
'host' => getenv('POSTGRESQL.HOST'),
'database' => getenv('POSTGRESQL.DATABASE_NAME'),
'username' => getenv('POSTGRESQL.DATABASE_USER'),
'password' => getenv('POSTGRESQL.DATABASE_PASSWORD'),
'charset' => 'utf8',
'prefix' => '',
'schema' => 'public',
),
),
);
Note that I don't do
return getenv('APP_ENV') ?: 'local';
Because I want it to fail on every server I deploy my app to.