I have created app/config/mysite.dev and added app.php and database.php to this dir. I then changed the values for local, staging and production in bootstrap/start.php to reference mysite.dev. However, instead of checking app/config/mysite.dev/database.php for the settings, it is instead reading app/config/database.php.
I feel that I have missed some critical step here.
Any ideas what?
Here is my bootstrap/start.php file:
<?php
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Create The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| The first thing we will do is create a new Laravel application instance
| which serves as the "glue" for all the components of Laravel, and is
| the IoC container for the system binding all of the various parts.
|
*/
$app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application;
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Detect The Application Environment
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Laravel takes a dead simple approach to your application environments
| so you can just specify a machine name or HTTP host that matches a
| given environment, then we will automatically detect it for you.
|
*/
$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(
'local' => array('mysite.dev'), // Change this to your local machine hostname.
'staging' => array('mysite.dev'),
'production' => array('mysite.dev'),
));
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Bind Paths
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here we are binding the paths configured in paths.php to the app. You
| should not be changing these here. If you need to change these you
| may do so within the paths.php file and they will be bound here.
|
*/
$app->bindInstallPaths(require __DIR__.'/paths.php');
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Load The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here we will load the Illuminate application. We'll keep this is in a
| separate location so we can isolate the creation of an application
| from the actual running of the application with a given request.
|
*/
$framework = $app['path.base'].'/vendor/laravel/framework/src';
require $framework.'/Illuminate/Foundation/start.php';
/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Return The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This script returns the application instance. The instance is given to
| the calling script so we can separate the building of the instances
| from the actual running of the application and sending responses.
|
*/
return $app;
bootstrap/start.phpfile and your computers hostname. Finding host name in Windows: seas.upenn.edu/cets/answers/find-hostname.html - for any Unix OS just type hostname in Terminal/Shell