Environment Variables Reference

Below is a description of the environment variables used in LinkDrop:

Application Settings

• APP_NAME: The name of your application (default: "LinkDrop")
• APP_ENV: Application environment (local, production, staging, etc.)
• APP_KEY: Encryption key for your application (auto-generated)
• APP_DEBUG: Enables debugging mode when set to true (set to false in production)
• APP_TIMEZONE: Sets the application timezone
• APP_URL: The base URL for your application

Localization

• APP_LOCALE: Default language for your application
• APP_FALLBACK_LOCALE: Fallback language if the primary is unavailable
• APP_FAKER_LOCALE: Locale setting for generating fake data

Maintenance

• APP_MAINTENANCE_DRIVER: Storage driver for maintenance mode
• PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS: Number of PHP CLI server workers
• BCRYPT_ROUNDS: Security rounds for password hashing (higher is more secure but slower)

Logging

• LOG_CHANNEL: How logs are stored (daily, single, etc.)
• LOG_STACK: Combined logging channels
• LOG_DEPRECATIONS_CHANNEL: Channel for deprecation warnings
• LOG_LEVEL: Minimum log level to record (debug, info, warning, error)

Database

• DB_CONNECTION: Database driver (mysql, pgsql, sqlite)
• DB_HOST: Database server host
• DB_PORT: Database server port
• DB_DATABASE: Database name
• DB_USERNAME: Database username
• DB_PASSWORD: Database password

Session

• SESSION_DRIVER: Where session data is stored
• SESSION_LIFETIME: Session timeout in minutes
• SESSION_ENCRYPT: Whether to encrypt session data
• SESSION_PATH: Cookie path for sessions
• SESSION_DOMAIN: Domain for session cookies

Services

• BROADCAST_CONNECTION: Broadcasting connection for real-time events
• FILESYSTEM_DISK: Default storage disk
• QUEUE_CONNECTION: Queue system for background processing
• CACHE_STORE: Where cache data is stored
• CACHE_PREFIX: Prefix for cache keys

External Services

• MEMCACHED_HOST: Memcached server address
• REDIS_CLIENT: Redis client library
• REDIS_HOST: Redis server address
• REDIS_PASSWORD: Redis server password
• REDIS_PORT: Redis server port

Mail

• MAIL_MAILER: Mail sending driver
• MAIL_HOST: Mail server host
• MAIL_PORT: Mail server port
• MAIL_USERNAME: Mail server username
• MAIL_PASSWORD: Mail server password
• MAIL_ENCRYPTION: Mail encryption method
• MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS: Default sender email address
• MAIL_FROM_NAME: Default sender name

AWS

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: AWS access key
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: AWS secret key
• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: AWS region
• AWS_BUCKET: AWS S3 bucket name
• AWS_USE_PATH_STYLE_ENDPOINT: Use path-style S3 endpoints

Vite

• VITE_APP_NAME: Application name for Vite

Payment Processing

• STRIPE_KEY: Stripe publishable key
• STRIPE_SECRET: Stripe secret key
• STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET: Secret for validating Stripe webhooks

Authentication

• GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID: Google OAuth client ID
• GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET: Google OAuth client secret
• GOOGLE_REDIRECT_URI: Redirect URL after Google authentication