laravel 4 environment setting in fortrabbit with getenev()

Question

Hi I deploy my application based on laravel 4 to fortrabbit. I try setting local and production environment

in bootstrap/start.php I modify

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function () {
        return getenv('LARAVEL_ENV') ?: 'local';
});

on fortrabbit i define env_var LARAVEL_ENV to prod

but if i try in fortrabbit

php artisan env

i obtain local instead of prod

what is wrong in my code?

Answer 1

After setting the environment variable in your Fortrabbit's dashboard, you need to write this in your start.php file:

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function () {
    return isset($_SERVER['LARAVEL_ENV'])
        ? $_SERVER['LARAVEL_ENV']
        : 'prod';
});

Note that it is better to fallback to the production environment in case there is no environment variable, since you don't want to mistakenly show debug logs on your production app.