Laravel 4.2 says my application is in production. How do I turn this off?

Question

I have a fresh install of Laravel. When running php artisan migrate:refresh I get a message saying Application In Production! Do you really wish to run

Answer 1

Hopefully this will help someone else. I suddenly had an issue where my dev site I was building stopped connecting to the DB saying:

PDOException SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'forge' failed

I was also receiving errors such as the OP when trying to run artisan migrate:refresh etc, the error was stating that i was in production etc etc.

After much head scratching (!) I found that my hostname value set inside the /bootstrap/start.php was wrong, because my hostname had changed on my macbook pro!? I have no idea how but it changed from something like RobMacbookPro2.local to RobMacbookPro.local. This meant it fell back to production thus loading the incorrect database.php file with the standard DB=forge (which was wrong)

Check this guide: http://laravel.com/docs/4.2/configuration

Pay particular attention to the code:

<?php

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(

    'local' => array('your-machine-name'),

));

On a mac and probably linux? you can determine your hostname by typing # hostname in terminal.

Hope that saves someone some time!

Answer 2

Just specify a machine name for the host that matches a given environment, then laravel will automatically detect the environment (default is production), for example:

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(

    //'local' => array('homestead'),

    'local' => array('*.dev', gethostname()),
    'production' => array('*.com', '*.net', 'www.somedomain.com')
));

Read the documentation and this answer as well.

Answer 3

In case if anyone stumbled upon this question while searching for similar problem in a lumen installation I'd suggest to check the .env file and add APP_ENV=local if its not already there. It solved my problem.

Answer 4

Setting your environment to something other than production is The Right Way. See the accepted answer.

But, if you're looking for A Quick Fix you can use (in UNIXoid environments):

yes | php artisan migrate:refresh

All this does is send a stream of "y" to the program, which acts like you pressed "y" when prompted.

I find this to be a little better than --force, as not all the artisan commands support force.