In Laravel 5.1 I'm trying to setup an environment specific configuration. In local and dev environment, my application(s) structure is similar to the typical subversion branches. So I have multiple installations of laravel in parallel. Example:
http://dev.domain/trunk/public/...
http://dev.domain/branches/branch1/public/...
To work with all this diffent versions of my applications I somehow need a dynamic configuration, related to the "base path", so the part between the domain and the public folder.
What I did so far, is to put the domain name in my app.php. What I'm struggling with, is how or where to setup, this dynamic part depend on under which subpath you're calling your application.
What I tried is to setup a config file config/myapp/app.php. That would be my production configuration, so the config parameter in there looks like this (Because in production I would have this subdirectories):
url_path_to_public = ''
Now I'd like to cascade this down to my local and dev environment by created a subfolder, named with my current environment dev and than overwrite this parameter with a dynamic expression. So this looks like:
'url_base_path_to_public' => strstr(str_replace($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'], '', __FILE__), '/config/dev/myapp/app.php', true).'/public',
So this file is located in:
config/dev/myapp/app.php
For some reason, this parameter is not being used, even though I' running my application in dev mode. I expected the configuration to cascade that parameter.
The alternative would be to set this information directly in the environment-specific configuration-file .env, but there I cannot use a dynamic expression like that mentioned above.
Did I make any mistake with cascation to work like expected?
