Laravel 5.2 not reading env file

Question

After upgrading to Laravel 5.2, none of my .env file values are being read. I followed the upgrade instructions; none of my config files were changed except aut

Answer 1

When you fired command php artisan config:cache then it will wipe out all the env variables and env() will give null values, try running following command and boom there your env() again begin to catch all env variable

php artisan config:clear