Laravel 4.1 Deployment - Production .env.php not being recognised

Question

For some reason, my production laravel app thinks that it is in the local environment.

/var/www/appname/.env.php

Answer 1

For all who want to know... to solve this issue, I just edited my httpd.conf file on the production server as follows:

SetEnv APP_ENV production

Now laravel knows that the app is in production.

If you are using nginx which I have now migrated my site to add the following where you pass scripts to the FCGI server in the active sites-available /etc/nginx/sites-available/{sitename}:

fastcgi_param APP_ENV production;