How can I handle subdomains with one laravel installation

Question

I am creating a laravel project for which I need one laravel installation and use its instance in sub-domain with separate database. And th

Answer 1

Just stumbled across this question, and IMHO sometimes the simplest suggestion is the easiest.

I just place a simple switch at the head of the /config/database.php file:

switch($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])
{
case 'dev.yoursite.com':
    $selectedDatabase = 'mysite_dev';
    break;
case 'yoursite.com':
default:
    $selectedDatabase = 'mysite_live';
    break;
}

Then simply use the variable within the returned config variable.

return [
    'connections' => 
        ['mysql' =>
             ['database' => $selectedDatabase,
              'username' => 'user_name',
              'password' => 'xxxxxxxxx',
             ],
        ]
    ];

I know its not the laravel way, but it'll get you out of a fix if you just want to open up a quick testing environment using the same PHP coding, but a test instance of your database.