PHP Laravel Server Environment Configuration

Question

I am new with laravel and I am confused on how to setup my server environment configuration. So here is a sample code I've seen in some tutorials, but still I am not satisfied that this would be flexible enough specially when my other co-developers use it.

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(
'local' => ['127.0.0.1', gethostname()],
'production' => ['ipforproductionhere'] ));

Answer 1

You can put in local names of your and other developer PC for example:

'local' => ['yourpcname', 'yourcoworkerpcname', 'yourothercoworkerpcname'],

And of all you when developing on those machines will work in local environment.

EDIT

You can also use other type of environment detecting for example:

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function(){
    if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']) ||
        strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'],'.') === false) {
        return 'local';
    }
    return 'production';
});

Now assuming each developer create virtualhost without a dot and uses for example http://myproject as domain it will use local environment and if dot will be found in HTTP_HOST it will use production environment.