Laravel 5: Enable laravel-debugbar

Question

I\'m using Laravel 5 and would like to use the barryvdh/laravel-debugbar. After the installation and configuration the bar is not showing.

I did the following:

Answer 1

The installation instructions at https://github.com/barryvdh/laravel-debugbar#installation recommend setting the application debug mode to true. Also make sure, that you do not disable the debugbar in config/debugbar.php by setting the enabled=false > If I were you I would simply remove it. ( The debugbar won't work, event if the application itself is in debug mode )

Another suggestion

As far as I know the .env.example file should be renamed to .env and all apropriate variables should be set. In my case it always contains lines like this:

APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true`

Within the config/app.php file the debug value should be read from the environment variable.

return [
    /* some other config values here... */
    'debug' => env('APP_DEBUG'),
]

Note, that it should also be possible to simply set the value to true without using the environment based configuration values.

Maybe you can test it by manually calling \Debugbar::enable(); in one of your routes and debugging afterwards.

Hope this helps.