I am trying to deploy my laravel project on Heroku. In the deployment steps at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-laravel , I am asked to set the 32 char APP KEY for the application
I am really confused, that should I use the already generated APP_KEY environment variable in the .env file which is something like this: APP_KEY=base64:3784jZeQ333utc4G8NxL9o2v6r8ct4ffTrRzFsStHrm0=
But this string is not 32 chars long, and the example in the steps clearly shows a random 32 char string. My env app key seems to be encryted.
I already tried using this env app key, but after deploying I get error: Whoops something went wrong.