Valet: Idea: Valet environment variables

Created on 15 Sep 2016 · 4Comments · Source: laravel/valet

I have been using valet for a while and love it! I think it would pretty damn cool for Valet to automatically load any environment variables contained in a .env file into the virtual host declaration within caddy for the site. It could even be an optional command such as valet load:env or something like that. Does anyone else think this is a feature worthy of being worked on? If so, I might take it up and do a PR

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dustinleblanc

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This could be beneficial.

I currently just edit my .valet/Caddy/foo.dev file directly to add an environment var to the couple sites that need it:

    fastcgi / 127.0.0.1:9000 php {
        index server.php
+       env VARNAME value
    }

... but of course that requires a manual edit, and remembering the syntax, and remembering the right line to put it on.

drbyte on 15 Sep 2016

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This could be beneficial.

I currently just edit my .valet/Caddy/foo.dev file directly to add an environment var to the couple sites that need it:

    fastcgi / 127.0.0.1:9000 php {
        index server.php
+       env VARNAME value
    }

... but of course that requires a manual edit, and remembering the syntax, and remembering the right line to put it on.

drbyte on 15 Sep 2016

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I think it could be cool. For each laravel site, I open up the dotenv and setup:

my local mariadb user and password
database equal to the directory name
set redis for the session and cache drivers
set local redis password

Since these are shared across all of my valet sites I think it makes sense.

djfurman on 16 Nov 2016

I too, used to edit the Caddyfile, but since Valet migrated to nginx, I lost the ability to do it.
Plus, creating files for the variables outside the codebase itself, was a little bit off for me.
Anyway, I've been using this locally for a while now, and I made a PR out of it.
https://github.com/laravel/valet/issues/473