How to upload laravel site to host correctly?

Question

Network administration

Please help me to properly deploy a site written in laravel on hosting. How should I change the .env file for production? What to write in the .htaccess file? Because I get 2 errors:

No supported encrypter found. The cipher and / or key length are invalid.

I've never experienced anything like this and don't know what to do. Help a newbie please! :)

Answer 1

I am using Forge + Envoyer .
If you don't understand at all, you can try Cloudways. Hosted on Apache in 2k18 (especially if you have shared) - IMHO bad manners.
In .env you write access to the database, application url and APP_ENV=production + commands during deployment:

composer install

npm install
npm run production

php artisan view:clear
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan vendor:publish
php artisan migrate --force
php artisan queue:restart
php artisan config:cache