Laravel check if config has been cached

March 2, 2021
By Jasper Frumau
Laravel

To check whether post deployment or post php artisan config:cache the configuration has been truly cached you can look up the cache in your application using

ll bootstrap/cache/
 total 516
 drwxrwxr-x 2 forge forge   4096 Mar  2 01:08 ./
 drwxrwxr-x 3 forge forge   4096 Mar  2 01:07 ../
 -rw-rw-r-- 1 forge forge     14 Mar  2 01:07 .gitignore
 -rw-rw-r-- 1 forge forge  45642 Mar  2 01:08 config.php
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 forge forge   3804 Mar  2 01:08 packages.php*
 -rw-rw-r-- 1 forge forge 441967 Mar  2 01:08 routes-v7.php
 -rwxrwxr-x 1 forge forge  17707 Mar  2 01:08 services.php*

Within bootstrap/cache you will see all your cached goodies including config.php . It contains all the cached configuration items you added to .env . So it is a rather long file.

You will also be able to read when they were created. Mine were created post deployment (UTC time on server) about half an hour before I wrote this. This confirms that php artisan config:cache had run its course. And this allowed my to rule out file caching based on config/cache.php interfering with our Redis caching..

Jasper Frumau

Jasper has been working with web frameworks and applications such as Laravel, Magento and his favorite CMS WordPress including Roots Trellis and Sage for more than a decade. He helps customers with web design and online marketing. Services provided are web design, ecommerce, SEO, content marketing. When Jasper is not coding, marketing a website, reading about the web or dreaming the internet of things he plays with his son, travels or run a few blocks.