Laravel 5.2 not reading env file
If any of your .env variables contains white space, make sure you wrap them in double-quotes. For example:
SITE_NAME="My website"
Don't forget to clear your cache before testing:
php artisan config:cachephp artisan config:clear
From the official Laravel 5.2 Upgrade Notes:
If you are using the
config:cachecommand during deployment, you must make sure that you are only calling theenvfunction from within your configuration files, and not from anywhere else in your application.If you are calling
envfrom within your application, it is strongly recommended you add proper configuration values to your configuration files and callenvfrom that location instead, allowing you to convert yourenvcalls toconfigcalls.
Reference: https://laravel.com/docs/5.2/upgrade#upgrade-5.2.0
Wow. Good grief. It's because I had an env value with a space in it, not surrounded by quotes
This
SITE_NAME=My websiteChanged to this
SITE_NAME="My website"Fixed it. I think this had to do with Laravel 5.2 now upgrading vlucas/phpdotenv from 1.1.1 to 2.1.0