Question

I am trying to set up multiple environments on a Laravel 4 app, and naturally different Databases depending on which environment we are on.

For my local machine, I set up a virtual host for “local.elders.dev”

Unfortunately, for some reason the following code is not working.

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(
    'local' => array('http://local.elders.dev'),
));

Maybe I need to run an artisan command or something else. I feel I am close, but not quite there yet !

Thanks to all !

Answer 1

OK ! I just solved the issue… The code was actually working ok ! The problem is that I was using

$_SERVER['DB1_HOST'] //for Pagodabox.

Of course this was not set on my local environment, which pretty much broke the app…

I fixed by simply doing :

isset($_SERVER['DB1_HOST']) ? $_SERVER['DB1_HOST'] : '';

Thanks to @jeroen and @theshiftexchange 🙂