After the database has been created, you may easily configure your environment variables to point to this database by placing the absolute path to the database in the DB_DATABASE environment variable: DB_CONNECTION=sqliteĭB_DATABASE=/absolute/path/to/database.sqlite You can create a new SQLite database using the touch command in your terminal: touch database/database.sqlite. SQLite databases are contained within a single file on your filesystem. However, you are free to modify your database configuration as needed for your local database. Examples for most of Laravel's supported database systems are provided in this file.īy default, Laravel's sample environment configuration is ready to use with Laravel Sail, which is a Docker configuration for developing Laravel applications on your local machine. Most of the configuration options within this file are driven by the values of your application's environment variables. In this file, you may define all of your database connections, as well as specify which connection should be used by default.

The configuration for Laravel's database services is located in your application's config/database.php configuration file.

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