Allow Serve Host to be specified in .env file

[tobya]

I would like to submit a PR for this, but I am unsure what the correct procedure is. Do I discuss here? Should I just submit the PR?

What is the change

When you call artisan serve you can specify the host and port to use

php artisan serve --host=mydomain.com --port=80

If you dont specify anything --host default to 127.0.0.1 --host 8000

You can specify the default for --port in .env (SERVER_PORT) but not host.

I would like to add SERVER_HOST to .env to be read as the default host.

This line needs to be updated to this

framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Console/ServeCommand.php

Line 198 in 8587185

['host', null, InputOption::VALUE_OPTIONAL, 'The host address to serve the application on', '127.0.0.1'],

       ['host', null, InputOption::VALUE_OPTIONAL, 'The host address to serve the application on', env::get('SERVER_HOST','127.0.0.1')],

Why

I know that there is no desire for people to serve production systems with this method, but I have several web apps that interact via api's . It is more straightforward if a host can be set when they are served.

in combination with my hosts file I can run 3 webapps

apple.example.com
orange.example.com
pear.example.com

Should I submit a PR?

[robert-moore96]

what is the actual use case for this?

are you expecting some kind of vhosts functionality from it?

[tobya]

My use case is to be able to set the dev domain that a site runs each time.

I have 3 Laravel apps - a main application and 2 api's which I which to develop at the same time.

I can set up the main app to use the development domains for the 2 apis and then set the hosts for the Apis so they always start on the same host.

My Api's then (with the help of my hosts file) can be

• Api1.mydevmachine.com
• api2.mydevmachine.com

essentially its exactly the same as just doing this

php artisan serve --host=api1.mydevmachine.com

If just removes the step of having to specify the --host each time.