Running laravel 4 and 5 together? - php

We have our site running on Laravel 4.2 and have been thinking about upgrading to 5.0 for a long time now.
We also have a subdomain that we started building and decided to use Laravel 5.1 so that we could get used to it before the migration. We have the sub domain setup and installed and it is running.
However, our login does not persist between the two domains. We have the domain set in session settings on both systems. The cookie gets set but I am assuming Laravel 4.2 and 5.1 have different auth systems therefore the cookie from 4.2 does not work in 5.1 and vice versa. We have also tried database sessions and file sessions without much luck.
Is there a way to convert a Laravel 4 session into a Laravel 5 session so that users can go from our 4.2 main site to our 5.1 sub domain easily?
Is it possible to make both types of cookie one for the 4.2 and one for the 5.1 at the same time so that users would have and use both domains?
Or are we looking at this all wrong and should try something totally different to get what we want?

Or are we looking at this all wrong and should try something totally different to get what we want?
Do you really need to run 4.2 & 5.1?
Personally I've done a few upgrades from 4.2 to 5.1 (and even 4.2 to 5.3 recently). Your best bet is just dedicate 3-4 hours (or even 1-2 days depending on the size of your app) and follow the upgrade guide: https://laravel.com/docs/5.1/upgrade#upgrade-5.0
If you follow each step systematically - it is a fairly easy upgrade path.
Then put the 5.1 application in a sub-domain and have some users "test" the new version, before you push it into production.
There is also the Laravel Shift paid option as well: https://laravelshift.com/

Watchout, Laravel 5.1 use a new Hash system, watch the line
'cipher' => 'AES-256-CBC',
in config/app.php and compare with the old app.php

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In conclusion I need a way to show to like 20% of the clients the newer version, and the older version for the other 80%, is possible to do this? Is there a better way to test the newer project for errors?
Thanks in advance.
You can use a Content Delivery Network e.g Cloudflare or something like AWS' CloudFront. You will be able to then configure the quota's in terms of where the relevant traffic will be redirected to.
Here is a link to an article on Cloudflare
and another one on AWS
You can also check with your host on how to configure a similar setup.
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On checking the compatibilities using Laravel Shift, it appears there is no version of Caffeinated/Modules compatible with Laravel 9. In addition, on checking the Modules project on GitHub, no updates have been made to it in the past year - which is slightly worrying.
So I'm wondering if this plugin is effectively obsolete? (or soon-to-be?)
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Is it safe to install jetstream for an existing laravel project?

I want to use jetstream for auth.
I create the project earlier and already worked on it. Now I want to use jetstream.
But in the official documentation of jetstream I found this warning:
"New Applications Only
Jetstream should only be installed into new Laravel applications. Attempting to install Jetstream into an existing Laravel application will result in unexpected behavior and issues."
Now I want suggestions that how I can use jetsteam without any issue in my existing project.
probably there should be no problem if you are using git . just commit your latest changes and add jet stream .
there is an issue on Jetstream GitHub page about it
Please, give red visible warning for peoples, that Jetstream will overwrite your existing work, and it is meant to be install only on fresh installations.
check it out
update :
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How to downgrade a Laravel 5.1 Project to 4.x?

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I have just tried with Laravel 4.1 using a project which I half way develop with Laravel 4.0. After I move everything over to clean new Laravel 4.1, everything running ok. However, one thing that is truly unacceptable is the slowness of Laravel 4.1. All webpages loads extremely slow. Everything I tried were running on my local PC with WampServer.
On Laravel 4.0, a webpage take about 97ms to load. However, on Laravel 4.1, the same page take about 1.14s to load. It is more than 10 times slower.
Do you experience the same problem like me on new Laravel? Is there any possible I can improve the speed?
Thanks.
Just try to upgrade your Apache Server. It should run faster.
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