Not able to set Database credentials

[manan-jadhav]

The deploy hook is not setting DB_DATABASE, DB_USERNAME, etc. It only sets the driver.

[luciddreamz]

That's intentional - these are using the existing OpenShift Environment variables:
https://github.com/luciddreamz/laravel/blob/master/config/database.php#L59

[manan-jadhav]

I already had a laavel app at my localhost. So I pushed it up with the .openshift directory.
It would be better to actually set the variables in .env instead of config file.

[luciddreamz]

Right, but why aren't you able to set database credentials? The QuickStart supports setting DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, etc by checking for the DB_USERNAME prior to checking for OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_USERNAME. Feel free to set these for local development or remote development.

I wouldn't recommend it, but if you really want to duplicate the pre-existing OpenShift environment variables feel free to replace lines 33-39 in the deploy action hook:

if [ ! -z "$OPENSHIFT_POSTGRESQL_DB_HOST" ]; then
  export DB_DRIVER="pgsql"
  export DB_HOST="$OPENSHIFT_POSTGRESQL_DB_HOST"
  export DB_PORT="$OPENSHIFT_POSTGRESQL_DB_PORT"
  export DB_DATABASE="$OPENSHIFT_APP_NAME"
  export DB_USERNAME="$OPENSHIFT_POSTGRESQL_DB_USERNAME"
  export DB_PASSWORD="$OPENSHIFT_POSTGRESQL_DB_PASSWORD"
fi
if [ ! -z "$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_HOST" ]; then
  export DB_DRIVER="mysql"
  export DB_HOST="$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_HOST"
  export DB_PORT="$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_PORT"
  export DB_DATABASE="$OPENSHIFT_APP_NAME"
  export DB_USERNAME="$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_USERNAME"
  export DB_PASSWORD="$OPENSHIFT_MYSQL_DB_PASSWORD"
fi

Then, replace lines 54-57:

if [ "$(type -t set_env_var)" == "function" ]; then
  set_env_var 'DB_DRIVER' $DB_DRIVER $OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR/.env/user_vars
  set_env_var 'DB_PORT' $DB_PORT $OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR/.env/user_vars
  set_env_var 'DB_DATABASE' $DB_DATABASE $OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR/.env/user_vars
  set_env_var 'DB_USERNAME' $DB_USERNAME $OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR/.env/user_vars
  set_env_var 'DB_PASSWORD' $DB_PASSWORD $OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR/.env/user_vars
fi

By doing this, you're just using an environment variable to create an environment variable with the same value. The database environment variables are only used by Laravel in the config file. Some variables, like APP_ENV, tend to get used elsewhere.

[manan-jadhav]

Alright. Thanks.
Btw, I installed the quickstart, and then overwrote it by pushing my local repo onto it.(git push cloud -f).
So the code in config file is MINE, not the one that is defined in QuickStart.