Appendix A: Configuration Parameter Reference
APP_CIPHER
: Database encryption cipher, options are AES-128-CBC or AES-256-CBC (default). Only change this if you are starting from a clean database APP_DEBUG
: When your application is in debug mode, detailed error messages with stack traces will be shown on every error that occurs within your application. If disabled, a simple generic error page is shown APP_ENV
: This may determine how various services behave in your application APP_KEY
: This key is used by the application for encryption and should be set to a random, 32 character string, otherwise these encrypted strings will not be safe. Use 'php artisan key:generate' to generate a new key. Please do this before deploying an application! APP_LOCALE
: The application locale determines the default locale that will be used by the translation service provider. Currently only 'en' (English) is supported APP_LOG
: This setting controls the placement and rotation of the log file used by the application APP_LOG_LEVEL
: The setting controls the amount and severity of the information logged by the application. This is hierarchical and goes in the following order: DEBUG -> INFO -> NOTICE -> WARNING -> ERROR -> CRITICAL -> ALERT -> EMERGENCY. If you set log level to WARNING then all WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL, ALERT, and EMERGENCY will be logged. Setting log level to DEBUG will log everything. Default is WARNING
['APP_NAME']="This value is used when the framework needs to place the application's name in a notification or any other location as required by the application or its packages APP_TIMEZONE
: Here you may specify the default timezone for your application, which will be used by the PHP date and date-time functions APP_URL
: This URL is used by the console to properly generate URLs when using the Artisan command line tool. You should set this to the root of your application so that it is used when running Artisan tasks DF_LANDING_PAGE
: This is the starting point (page, application, etc.) when a browser points to the server root URL