start.php

<?php

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Create The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| The first thing we will do is create a new Laravel application instance
| which serves as the "glue" for all the components of Laravel, and is
| the IoC container for the system binding all of the various parts.
|
*/

$app = new Illuminate\Foundation\Application;

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Detect The Application Environment
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Laravel takes a dead simple approach to your application environments
| so you can just specify a machine name or HTTP host that matches a
| given environment, then we will automatically detect it for you.
|
*/

$env = $app->detectEnvironment(function(){
	return isset($_SERVER['CMS_ENV']) ? $_SERVER['CMS_ENV'] : 'production';
});

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Bind Paths
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here we are binding the paths configured in paths.php to the app. You
| should not be changing these here. If you need to change these you
| may do so within the paths.php file and they will be bound here.
|
*/

$app->bindInstallPaths(require __DIR__.'/paths.php');

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Load The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Here we will load the Illuminate application. We'll keep this is in a
| separate location so we can isolate the creation of an application
| from the actual running of the application with a given request.
|
*/

$framework = $app['path.base'].'/vendor/laravel/framework/src';

require $framework.'/Illuminate/Foundation/start.php';

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Disable any caching
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/

if (!isset($unitTesting) || !$unitTesting) {
	header('Cache-Control: no-store, private, no-cache, must-revalidate');                  // HTTP/1.1
	header('Cache-Control: pre-check=0, post-check=0, max-age=0, max-stale = 0', false);    // HTTP/1.1
	header('Pragma: public');
	header('Expires: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT');                                       // Date in the past  
	header('Expires: 0', false);
	header('Last-Modified: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s').' GMT');
	header('Pragma: no-cache');
}

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Return The Application
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| This script returns the application instance. The instance is given to
| the calling script so we can separate the building of the instances
| from the actual running of the application and sending responses.
|
*/

return $app;