Laravel 5.8 , artisan commands error : Failed to parse dotenv file due to an invalid name - shared-hosting

Question

This problem only happens with Laravel 5.8 on my shared hosting.
It is working fine in my shared hosting with Laravel 5.7.
It is working fine in my local environment with Laravel 5.8.
the problem is:
every time I run php artisan commands (on my shared hosting with Laravel 5.8 only) I got this error
The environment file is invalid! Failed to parse dotenv file due to an invalid name.
Failed at [APP_NAME].
my .env first line is : APP_NAME=rased
Also my site after updating to Laravel 5.8 is becoming a white blank page!

Answer 1

This is a general error related to parsing the .env file.
You'll see this is indicated in the error e.g.
The environment file is invalid!
Failed to parse dotenv file due to unexpected whitespace.
Failed at [This will fail].
In this example it was caused by having unescaped whitespace in the APP_NAME field i.e.
APP_NAME=This will fail
To fix, escape with quotes e.g.
APP_NAME="This is better"

Answer 2

This is general Error when we change our app name. To remove this error just do this.
APP_NAME=My Project Name
to this
APP_NAME="My Project Name"
You just need to add "" course around name.
Thanks

Answer 3

I found the cause of this problem.
It was because of line separator in .env file !
It must be CRLF not LF
My .env file was LF
see the screenshot to understand the solution

Answer 4

I received a similar error while upgrading from Laravel 5.5 to Laravel 5.8.
The environment file is invalid! Failed to parse dotenv file due to an
invalid name. Failed at [//APP_ENV].
5.5 would accept C style comments on APP_ENV:
// env file setup for production environment
//APP_ENV = production
//APP_DEBUG = false
// env file setup for local environment
APP_ENV = local
APP_DEBUG = true
While 5.8 will not. # works for comments:
# env file setup for production environment
#APP_ENV = production
#APP_DEBUG = false
# env file setup for local environment
APP_ENV=local
APP_DEBUG=true
I had tried removing the spaces as a brand new 5.8 application installs without spaces in these definitions. That didn't fix it.
Curiously I still have C style comments other places in the file, so only for APP_ENV?

Answer 5

I changed the encoding of .env and it was solved.
UFT-8 without BOM
Thanks

Answer 6

I recently ran into this same problem on my app for Laravel 6.12.0.
I was able to resolve this issue by adding a blank new line/space at the top of the .env file.
Example .env file:
[add a new line here]
APP_NAME=Laravel
APP_ENV=local
APP_KEY=
APP_DEBUG=true
APP_URL=http://localhost
LOG_CHANNEL=stack
DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=laravel
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=
BROADCAST_DRIVER=log
CACHE_DRIVER=file
QUEUE_CONNECTION=sync
SESSION_DRIVER=file
SESSION_LIFETIME=120
REDIS_HOST=127.0.0.1
REDIS_PASSWORD=null
REDIS_PORT=6379
MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.mailtrap.io
MAIL_PORT=2525
MAIL_USERNAME=null
MAIL_PASSWORD=null
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=null
MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS=null
MAIL_FROM_NAME="${APP_NAME}"
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
AWS_BUCKET=
PUSHER_APP_ID=
PUSHER_APP_KEY=
PUSHER_APP_SECRET=
PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER=mt1
MIX_PUSHER_APP_KEY="${PUSHER_APP_KEY}"
MIX_PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER="${PUSHER_APP_CLUSTER}"

Answer 7

I had exactly the same problem, but a different solution. CRLF made no difference.
This was driving me nuts, and I read somewhere that C style comments were no longer supported. My env file didn't contain any, but in desperation I added the following line to the top of the file:
# getting tiresome.
I don't think the wording is important, but the key thing was there was a comment.
After that, it worked. I don't know why, but it did.
Fast forward a few months, and the problem returned the next time I have to upgrade Laravel. This was kind of weird as the file was the same. This time I had to make sure I saved the file as UTF-8 without BOM.

Answer 8

I have added course "" around the DB_DATABASE path.

Answer 9

MAIL_FROM_NAME=Account confirmation
i was just making spaces between the two words
Just try to avoid it like : Account_confirmation
MAIL_FROM_NAME=Account_confirmation (correct)

Answer 10

In my case, I had an extra line that shouldn't be there.
Header set X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN Removed this and IT WORKED

Answer 11

I discover that if you declare the APP_NAME in quotes in the .env file, It will allow spaces in the app name but make sure you restart the server using the command (php artisan serve)
For e.g: APP_NAME='Laravel Login'
That works for me.

Answer 12

delete the .env file and recreate another with the same content

Answer 13

In case anybody else gets here and hasn't solved their problem. I came across this issue and found that it was due to using a hyphen to separate the environment variable name.
NOM-OPEN="2020/01/24"
This was okay up to Laravel 5.7 but fell over for 5.8. To solve it change the hyphen to an underscore.
NOM_OPEN="2020/01/24"
Don't forget to update all references to the variable!