php - WAMP Laravel - Sending API requests from one local site to another mixes up environment variables

Question

I am developing an API service that another site I've developed will be using. So locally when building and testing, obviously I want both local copies of the site to work. However, it seems to mix up the environment variables.

For example:

• Site A has APP_URL=http://a.local
• Site B has APP_URL=http://b.local
• I send a GET Request (using Guzzle) from Site A code to http://b.local/test
• The /test endpoing in Site B simply dumps out dump(env('APP_URL'))
• Result retrieved by Site A is "http://a.local"
• Expected result: "http://b.local"

So the code in Site B is running with environment variables loaded from Site A. This is an issue as Site B cannot access the correct database, it's trying to use the Site A's database.

Is this an issue with my local setup (Win10 + WAMP), PHP settings, Laravel settings?

Answer 1

I also encountered this issue, and it is mentioned here. The resolution for it is to run php artisan config:cache in both projects to cache configuration from .env files or patch the code from here.