Feedback & composer issue

eriktailor

Hello!

I'm a Mac user, and fed up with MAMP, so I was looking for an alternative solution, that's how I find Indigo. Downloaded, installed, worked fine. The design is really cool, and the UI is simple, easy to use. Good job.

However I wasn't able to install composer, so I couldn't use Laravel with Indigo as I expected, so unfortunately I had to remove it and get back to MAMP.

Cheers,
Erik

Indigo

Hi Erik, welcome to the forums! And thanks for spending the time writing your feedback, it's much appreciated.

I can assure you Indigo absolutely does work with Laravel & Composer — I use it that way every day 🙂

Can you elaborate more on the issues you had when installing composer?

Also, are you aware of Indigo's shell integration feature? If not, that may have contributed to your difficulty installing composer.

In a nutshell it allows you to set up your terminal with access to the services defined in your stack eg the same PHP you have chosen for the stack. (This is needed because Indigo allows you to have many stacks all with their own different versions of PHP; this feature allows you to get, for example, PHP 5.6 in one terminal session while working on an old project, and PHP 8.2 on another terminal session while working with a modern project.)

in Indigo, go to the Indigo menu and choose "Install shell integration..."
open a new terminal window, and type indigo.set.YourStackName.default (using tab autocompletion means you may only need to type the first few letters of that).
now your command line will be using the PHP defined in your stack.

eriktailor

Upon your quick and positive reply, I gave it another try, and I was able to install and get it work with my local web projects, just as expected!

Oh, and for those who facing the same issue, here's what I learned:

when using Laravel, you have to select the public folder as the document root
on Mac, you have to get Indigo's custom mysql.sock file, and add the link in the .env

Thank you, keep on good work! 👍

Cheers,
Erik

Indigo

Great to hear it works for you now!

Can you elaborate more on how/why you need to reference mysql.sock in your .env? I've only ever needed something like the following in my Laravel .env files, which tells Laravel how to access Indigo's MySQL server:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3308
DB_DATABASE=my-database-name
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=password

In this example you can see I've chosen port 3308 for this particular MySQL server.

eriktailor

Indigo There was a Laravel db error message that "No such file or directory...", I googled a lot after this, and found out that defining the place of the mysql.sock file solves it. So here's mine now:

UNIX_SOCKET=/Users/eriktailor/.indigo/stacks/CF5EED/mysql_BC12/run/mysqld.sock DB_SOCKET=/Users/eriktailor/.indigo/stacks/CF5EED/mysql_BC12/run/mysqld.sock