Deploy Git code based in laravel

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I'm trying to perform Continuous Deployment with Github and Laravel 5. I want to create 3 branch in my Git, develop, QA, and master A push in each respective branch would deploy in a different server, all instances of AWS Amazon EC2.

Thing is I don't know how to manage .env file for instance. For those 3 servers, this file should be different. Besides, this file is part of .gitignore, so it will not be deployed. So how should I do to manage this part???

Atrakeur · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-13 17:30:52Z

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The first time you setup your hosting, you clone the corresponding branch into your server. Then you write manually the .env file.

When your server will clone revisions after that, your .env will stay untouched because it is gitignore'd.

That's the whole point of using a .env in the first time: set configuration by install independently of versionning.

If you still want to make your .env part of the versionned code, but still keep sensitive data out of your repository, I suggest using env variables to store that data.

To use a env variable from a .env file, use YOUR_CONF={$YOUR_ENV_VAR} in your .env file. Make sure YOUR_ENV_VAR is set on your server env.

Hope it's more clear now.

Also on a side note, maybe you should consider using a PhpCi install to help you acheive that.

edited Nov 13, 2015 at 17:30

answered Nov 13, 2015 at 8:08

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Juliatzin Over a year ago

Well that's all the point of that. I m using Continuous Deployement, and I always deploy a full project clone, so I will never have .env.

Atrakeur Over a year ago

That's not how it is supposed to work. As stated by the docs, laravel's .env must stay consistent across deployments (it is server specific). Another way is to setup server env variables and use them to hold your data. But you'll still need a .env (but it can be versionned because all credentials can be move to env variables).

Juliatzin Over a year ago

Exact, I will use a standart .env without data, and relation it to server variables

Juliatzin · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-13 16:11:09Z

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Solution would be setting global variable $_ENV in server to each environement!

answered Nov 13, 2015 at 16:11

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