How to publish config files in Laravel 11

To publish additional configuration files in Laravel 11, use:

php artisan config:publish

Laravel will then ask you to choose which configuration file you want to publish.

And by the way, you can also publish them all at once using:

php artisan config:publish --all

Why is this necessary now? Because starting from Laravel 11, new projects get to experience a slimmer skeleton. Part of the efforts to make it happen was:

• Cleaning up the configuration files (some values were actually removed).
• Updating the .env.example file with more environment variables to make the framework more configurable in one place.
• Reducing the amount of published files, which can be overwhelming for new developers. For instance, the cors.php, hashing.php, and view.php files are missing.

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