Laravel Homestead Vagrant Box Database Problems

Question

I can\'t use the same database.php settings when browsing the local website in a browser (example.app:8000) and when using php artisan migrate.

If my database.php se

Answer 1

The way that I do this is set variables in the homestead.yml file. PhpDotenv doesn't populate the values if they exist so you can set the environment variables on the Homestead VM and config

# homestead.yml

variables:
 - key: APP_ENV
   value: local
 - key: DB_HOST
   value: 127.0.0.1
 - key: DB_PORT
   value: 3306

# .env

DB_HOST=192.168.10.10 # Homestead VM IP
DB_PORT=33060         # Port which is forwarded to 3306 on the VM 

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vagrant@homestead:~/Sites/example$ php artisan migrate

Nothing to migrate.

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Ben in ~/Sites/example on develop$ php artisan migrate

Nothing to migrate.

This obviously makes the assumption that all sites running on Homestead are using MySQL (or some database on 3306) and all databases are on the Homestead VM, as opposed to on the host, or at a 3rd party, say AWS etc.

At the time of writing, homestead doesn't allow you to configure per site variables.