The only supported ciphers are AES-128-CBC and AES-256-CBC with the correct key lengths. laravel 5.3

Question

I installed a new fresh copy of Laravel 5.3 using composer but I\'m getting this error:

The only supported ciphers are AES-128-CBC and AES-256-CBC wit

Answer 1

Follow These Steps:

Step 1: Make sure you have .env file in your application.If not run this command cp .env.example .env

Step 2: Now run following command ( php artisan key:generate ) to generate a key and it will get saved in .env file automatically.

Step 3: Run php artisan config:cache if you want to cache the configurtration Or php artisan config:clear

Hopefully it will fix everything.