How do I set laravel test to go to site name instead of localhost
From Laravel 5.4 the $baseUrl method doesn't seem to work anymore
Also, trying to set the url dinamically with \Config:set('app.url', 'http://dev.myappnamehere') doesn't work either, as it seems that Laravel caches the root url
A way to set a custom root url is:
\URL::forceRootUrl('http://dev.myappnamehere');
For Laravel 5,In the tests directory there should be a file called TestCase.php. In that file is a property $baseUrl. Update the value to your desired url. For example change
protected $baseUrl = 'http://localhost';to
protected $baseUrl = 'http://dev.myappnamehere';
So shortly after I asked I stumbled on the answer. In
LaravelTestCase.php there is a function called
baseUrl() which sets the url it looks for. Once I changed that it looked in the correct spot. That file was part of the laracast testing that I loaded in.