laravel No supported encrypter found. The cipher and / or key length are invalid

Question

I am building a project using Laravel. It was working fine on localhost, but when I upload it to the server (the server has comodo ssl installed), I receive the following error:

RuntimeException in EncryptionServiceProvider.php line 29:
No supported encrypter found. The cipher and / or key length are invalid
in EncryptionServiceProvider.php line 29
at EncryptionServiceProvider->Illuminate\Encryption\{closure}(object(Application), array()) in Container.php line 733
at Container->build(object(Closure), array()) in Container.php line 626
at Container->make('encrypter', array()) in Application.php line 674
at Application->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Encryption\Encrypter') in Container.php line 837
at Container->resolveClass(object(ReflectionParameter)) in Container.php line 800
at Container->getDependencies(array(object(ReflectionParameter)), array()) in Container.php line 771
at Container->build('SahraSalon\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies', array()) in Container.php line 626
at Container->make('SahraSalon\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies', array()) in Application.php line 674
at Application->make('SahraSalon\Http\Middleware\EncryptCookies') in Pipeline.php line 123
at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}(object(Request)) in CheckForMaintenanceMode.php line 42
at CheckForMaintenanceMode->handle(object(Request), object(Closure))
at call_user_func_array(array(object(CheckForMaintenanceMode), 'handle'), array(object(Request), object(Closure))) in Pipeline.php line 124
at Pipeline->Illuminate\Pipeline\{closure}(object(Request))
at call_user_func(object(Closure), object(Request)) in Pipeline.php line 103
at Pipeline->then(object(Closure)) in Kernel.php line 118
at Kernel->sendRequestThroughRouter(object(Request)) in Kernel.php line 86
at Kernel->handle(object(Request)) in index.php line 54

Can anyone help solve this error?

Answer 1

You only type in console:

php artisan key:generate

And if your app.php not change this Key, change manually.

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Next if you should then happen to get this error message:

[ErrorException]
file_get_contents(/path/to/my/project/.env): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Then make a copy of the .env.example file and try again:

cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate

Answer 2

Do you have all the necessary extensions installed on the server?

• PHP >= 5.5.9
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension

It could be that you're missing the OpenSSL extension. Also, do you have the key set in .env file?

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Try running:

php artisan key:generate

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Answer: the 'cipher' => '' was not set.

Answer 3

I fixed it by running this:

php artisan config:cache

Answer 4

I have same issue before and I fixed it follow this way: Go to config/app.php, change "cipher" => "anything" to

'cipher' => MCRYPT_RIJNDAEL_128,