No application encryption key has been specified. Laravel x9

Laravel

Hello Guys,
I am facing this error when I try to run Laravel 9 for the first time

Note: .env was not exists and i created it by myself what should I do?
Thanks in Advance

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Mohamed Atef

16 Jul 2022

Best Answer

Hello Jo,
That's because you need to add a line called “APP_KEY” and then save the changes of the .env then run

php artisan key:generate

you will find value added to “APP_KEY”, then clear the application cache using

php artisan optimize

php artisan config:cache

Now run the server using php artisan serve and it will work fine

Jo Micheal

16 Jul 2022

Thank you so much, it's working!