Clear the Cache in Laravel | Hostvento Knowledge Base

What is Laravel cache?

Laravel is a popular PHP framework for building websites. A framework is a ready-made base that saves you from writing everything yourself. To run faster, Laravel saves some work in cache files. Cache is a store of saved results. If you change a setting or a route and the site still acts the old way, the cache may be stale. Clearing it fixes that.

You run these commands with Artisan. Artisan is Laravel's built-in command tool. You need SSH access. SSH is a safe way to type commands on a server from far away. Ask Hostvento support if your plan includes it.

Steps

Log in to your server with SSH.
Go to your Laravel project folder, the one that has a file named artisan.
```
cd /path/to/your/project
```
Clear the application cache.
```
php artisan cache:clear
```
This removes data your code has stored in the cache.
Clear the configuration cache.
```
php artisan config:clear
```
Use this after you edit your .env file.
Clear the route cache.
```
php artisan route:clear
```
Use this when new routes do not work. A route is a web address your app knows about.
Clear compiled view files.
```
php artisan view:clear
```
Views are the page templates. Use this when a template change does not appear.

Clear everything at once

php artisan optimize:clear

This one command clears config, route, view, event and compiled caches in newer Laravel versions.

Build the cache again

On a live site, caching speeds things up. After clearing, you can rebuild it.

php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache
php artisan view:cache

Tip: If a command does nothing, check that you are in the right folder and that the storage folder is writable.

If you cannot use SSH

You can delete the files inside bootstrap/cache and storage/framework/cache with the File Manager. Do not delete the folders themselves. Take a backup first.

Quick recap

Use php artisan cache:clear for app cache.
Use config:clear, route:clear, view:clear for the others.
optimize:clear does most of it in one go.