Environment detection for larval app.

start.php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Detect The Application Environment
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Laravel takes a dead simple approach to your application environments
| so you can just specify a machine name for the host that matches a
| given environment, then we will automatically detect it for you.
|
*/

/*
  Rename LARAVEL_ENV to whatever name works for you. 
*/
$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function()
{
	return getenv('LARAVEL_ENV') ? : 'local';
});

vhosts.conf

// add this somewhere on your server configuration and reboot apache. I think you can add it in a few different places, I used the vhosts file. 



<VirtualHost *:80>

       
       
        SetEnv LARAVEL_ENV "production"

</VirtualHost>