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I'm new to Laravel and I'm trying to use the Artisan command...
php artisan serve It displays...
Laravel development server started: http://127.0.0.1:8000
However, it won't automatically launch and when I manually enter http://127.0.0.1:8000 it shows this error:
RuntimeException No application encryption key has been specified.
Any ideas? I'm using Laravel framework 5.5-dev.
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To solve this issue you will have to generate a APP_KEY which is located within your . env (environment) file. To generate the key you can run the Laravel Artisan key generate command. Once you have generated it you can try again and refresh your Laravel application in the browser to see if the page is running or not.
The Laravel PHP artisan serve command helps running applications on the PHP development server. As a developer, you can use Laravel artisan serve to develop and test various functions within the application. It also accepts two additional options. You can use the host for changing application's address and port.
php artisan config:cache This command clears the cached config file as mentioned above and recaches the latest configurations into a single file again.
From Encryption - Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans:
"Before using Laravel's encrypter, you must set a key option in your config/app.php configuration file. You should use the
php artisan key:generatecommand to generate this key"
I found that using this complex internet query in google.com:
"laravel add encrption key" (Yes, it worked even with the typo!)
Note that if the .env file contains the key but you are still getting an application key error, then run php artisan config:cache to clear and reset the config.
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In my case, I also needed to reset the cached config files:
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