Hello everyone, today I will show you a little trick that I use frequently in my scripts to create a Laravel application key commonly generated with artisan.
It's simple, with the help of the openssl package we can generate a random string of 32 characters and at the same time, it can be encoded in base64.
This will generate a fully valid laravel application key that you can use in your .env configuration file.
echo "base64:$(openssl rand -base64 32)"
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Laravel added a flag to the command to get a valid key without modifying the .env file
Hi, thanks for sharing this tip. Just curious about the reason behind it? Or is it just another way to do it?
On one occasion I had to do it this way to generate a secret file in a Laravel application in Kubernetes. Obviously this is another way to do it without having the PHP interpreter installed locally. However you do it, the result is the same.
Just in-case if need a PHP version: