Laravel 5.3 - Clear config cache in shared hosting

Question

Currently I'm working on small project that require me to host my laravel app on shared hosting (please ignore the reason why I didn't use VPS to host my laravel project) and this hosting provider disable escapeshellarg() for security reason so I can't use php artisan config:cache to clear config cache.

Is there any workaround for this?

Answer 1

You can call artisan commands programmatically

Artisan::call('config:clear');

This can be helpful in setups where the PHP user has a different set of permissions than the FTP user (so files created by PHP cannot be deleted via FTP)

Answer 2

config:clear command just deletes bootstrap/cache/config.php file, so just delete this file manually.

Answer 3

Try also

php artisan config:cache

https://www.tutsmake.com/laravel-clear-cache-using-artisan-command-cli/