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21/8/2017 Laravel 5.

4: Specified key was too long error - Laravel News

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Windows Server 2016 guide. Rea

L A R AV E L 5 .4 / JA N UA RY 25, 2 0 1 7

Laravel 5.4: Speci ed key was too long


error
Laravel 5.4 made a change to the default database character set, and its now
utf8mb4 which includes support for storing emojis. This only a ects new
applications and as long as you are running MySQL v5.7.7 and higher you do not
need to do anything.

For those running MariaDB or older versions of MySQL you may hit this error when
trying to run migrations:

[Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long;

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max key length is 767 bytes (SQL: alter table users add unique
users_email_unique(email))

[PDOException]
SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long;
max key length is 767 bytes

As outlined in the Migrations guide to fix this all you have to do is edit your
AppServiceProvider.php file and inside the boot method set a default string
length:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

public function boot()


{
Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
}

A er that everything should work as normal.


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