Changing default environment in Laravel 4

Question

In Laravel 4 the default configuration environment is \'production\'. This means that if you run an artisan command without the --env option, it assumes the product

Answer 1

One of the most elegant solution that I've found is from this blog post: http://stevegrunwell.com/blog/laravel-application-environment/

The advantages:

1. No need to hardcode an array of development machines into a git committed file start.php.
2. Fallback to server environmental variables in production.
3. Easy persist local development environment by modifying the environment.php file.