How to stop Laravel 5 from caching configurations?

Question

It is written in Laravel 5 documentation that php artisan config:cache stores all the app configuration into one single file which makes the application load fa

Answer 1

As per the post here: https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/2501

"Change cache driver to array for the local environment."

For me this involves adding CACHE_DRIVER=array to my .env file. This is then picked up by my config/cache.php file which includes the line: 'default' => env('CACHE_DRIVER', 'file'),

Obviously you could change it directly in the config/cache.php but I'd prefer to use the .env file so I can disable it for development sites and enable for production.

Answer 2

You can't stop the caching of config files since it doesn't happen automatically. The only thing you need to do, is not call config:cache.

The file itself can be found in bootstrap/cache/config.php.

Note that the location of the compiled config file has changed recently. Yours might also be in vendor/config.php or storage/framework/config.php. With a fresh install or if you run composer update the file should be in bootstrap/cache though.

Answer 3

If you delete this directory [bootstrap/cache] in your project and replace it with a file then it should be impossible for anyone on the team to accidentally cache your config.