You have DB_HOST 3 times in database.php? :P

Hehe good catch, wrong paste obviously :P

'mysql' => array(
		'driver'    => 'mysql',
		'host'      =>  getenv('DB_HOST'),
		'database'  =>  getenv('DB_NAME'),
		'username'  =>  getenv('DB_USERNAME'),
		'password'  =>  getenv('DB_PASSWORD'),
		'charset'   =>  'utf8',
		'collation' =>  'utf8_unicode_ci',
		'prefix'    => '',
	),

(Still same issue btw)

Maybe the env is not being caught properly? What does your detectEnvironment code look like and if you do

php artisan env

what is returned?

It returns production, so I assume it should return development/local ?

it should return local if you want to use .env.local.php

can you paste the $app->detectEnvironment function from bootstrap/start.php

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(array(

'local' => array('localhost'),

));

Shouldn't the above code work?

It worked, thank you very much! :)

Always a good idea to try and return the getenv() in a test route if you want to check your app can read it. Or in an error page, you'll see it at the bottom of the request data :)

Route::get('/dbinfo', function() {
	return getenv('DB_HOST') . ' ' . getenv('DB_USERNAME');
});