How to set environment variables for Laravel 5 on AWS EC2 with MySQL

Question

I have successfully deployed my laravel 5 app to AWS EC2. I have also created a MySQL database with AWS RDS and associated it with my app instance.

Now I want to set my

Answer 1

Russ Matney above gave the right answer, so he gets the checkmark. I'll write my own answer here to add in details on how I made things work. I assume you do have your database set up and have all the credentials you need.

1. Go to your elastic beanstalk dashboard

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2. Next go to your software config

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3. Add your production environment variables as shown below. Remember to set the doc root to /public, and also add :3306 at the end of your database end point to avoid the PDOEXCEPTION error.

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4. Next SSH into your apps eb instance. See details here, or try the following below:

$ ssh -i path/to/your/key/pair/pem/file.pem ec2-user@ec1-11-11-11-111.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com

Note the ec1-11-11-11-111.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com is your apps public DNS. You'll find yours right here:

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5. cd to your app: $ cd /var/app/current

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6. Give read/write access to your storage folder or the app can't write to the logs folder and that'll result in an error when running the migrations. To give access: $ sudo chmod -R ugo+rw storage

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7. Finally! Run your migrations and do other artisan commands if you please! $ php artisan migrate Success should roughly look like this from gitbash: