I have installed laravel 5.7 in my system. I want to know that is it necessary to execute php artisan key:generate
command?
php artisan key:generate
This command sets the APP_KEY
value in your .env
file.
If you create a project with composer it'll generated default with project.
composer create-project laravel/laravel
If you clone project using git clone
some folder is ignored by git so you might not get env file as well as vendor folder. Therefore, they will have to manually enter php artisan key:generate
for their app to function correctly.
So, TL:DR the only time you need to call php artisan key:generate
is following a clone
of a pre-created Laravel project.
Note: If you try to run a Laravel project with your APP_KEY
set to SomeRandomString
(which is the default in your .env.example
file, you will actually get an error:
No supported encrypter found. The cipher and / or key length are invalid.