Laravel 5 - Clear cache in shared hosting server

Question

The question is pretty clear.

php artisan cache:clear

Is there any work around to clear the cache like above we using in CLI. I am using a famous shared hosting service but as per my plan I don't have control panel access.

Basically I want to clear the views cache.

I saw a question almost same like this, but it doesn't helps me.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Basically I want to clear the views cache.

There is now a command in Laravel 5.1 for that

php artisan view:clear

Answer 2

This package is for php ^7.0 and ^laravel5.5.

Use this package in cronjob that I have created for this purpose only. I was also facing same situation. https://packagist.org/packages/afrazahmad/clear-cached-data Install it and run:

php artisan clear:data

and it will run the following commands automcatically

php artisan cache:clear
php artisan view:clear
php artisan route:clear
php artisan clear-compiled
php artisan config:cache

Hope it helps.

If you want to run it automatically at specific time then you will have to setup crnjob first. e.g.

 in app/console/kernel.php

In schedule function:

$schedule->command('clear:data')->dailyAt('07:00');

Answer 3

You can do it via router as well, similar to Francesco answer but with less clutter in router config

Route::get('/artisan/{cmd}', function($cmd) {
    $cmd = trim(str_replace("-",":", $cmd));
    $validCommands = ['cache:clear', 'optimize', 'route:cache', 'route:clear', 'view:clear', 'config:cache'];
    if (in_array($cmd, $validCommands)) {
        Artisan::call($cmd);
        return "<h1>Ran Artisan command: {$cmd}</h1>";
    } else {
        return "<h1>Not valid Artisan command</h1>";
    }
});

Then run them via visiting http://myapp.test/artisan/cache-clear etc If you need to add/edit valid Artisan commands just update the $validCommands array.

Answer 4

To clear all cache outside CLI, Do this; This works for me.

Route::get('/clear', function() {

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

   return "Cleared!";

});

Answer 5

While I strongly disagree with the idea of running a laravel app on shared hosting (a bad idea all around), this package would likely solve your problem. It is a package that allows you to run some artisan commands from the web. It's far from perfect, but can work for some usecases.

https://github.com/recca0120/laravel-terminal

Answer 6

You can call an Artisan command outside the CLI.

Route::get('/clear-cache', function() {
    $exitCode = Artisan::call('cache:clear');
    // return what you want
});

You can check the official doc here http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/artisan#calling-commands-outside-of-cli

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Update

There is no way to delete the view cache. Neither php artisan cache:cleardoes that.

If you really want to clear the view cache, I think you have to write your own artisan command and call it as I said before, or entirely skip the artisan path and clear the view cache in some class that you call from a controller or a route.

But, my real question is do you really need to clear the view cache? In a project I'm working on now, I have almost 100 cached views and they weight less then 1 Mb, while my vendor directory is > 40 Mb. I don't think view cache is a real bottleneck in disk usage and never had a real need to clear it.

As for the application cache, it is stored in the storage/framework/cache directory, but only if you configured the file driver in config/cache.php. You can choose many different drivers, such as Redis or Memcached, to improve performances over a file-based cache.