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Refsheet / refsheet-site

Refsheet is a place for character and world builders to attach assets related to their characters in one unified format, allowing artists and story writers to access the specific details of a character, maintaining synchronized dynamic canon.
https://refsheet.net
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.env.local is missing #304

Closed venthewolf closed 1 year ago

venthewolf commented 1 year ago

I was trying to get this project running in one of my linux VM'S running MX linux. I followed the instructions, installed docker and docker compose. But when i run the command docker-compose up. The terminal returned ERROR: Couldn't find env file: /home/Loebas/refsheet/refsheet-site-master/.env.local. I believe someone forgot to put this file inside the repository, but i could have done something completely wrong.

MauAbata commented 1 year ago

.env.local is in the .gitignore file, because it is for your local ENV vars. It was, once, common practice to use and exclude this file. The reason is because a lot of API keys and application secrets come from environment variables in production, and to simulate this a similar set of API keys must be used on your local environment. However, if I checked in .env.local, I would be exposing those, which is arguably not such a good idea.

https://github.com/Refsheet/refsheet-site/blob/master/.gitignore#L18

Just touch the file. On my system it's only defining:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=
RECAPTCHA_SITE_KEY=
RECAPTCHA_SECRET_KEY=

Also, I hope you're developing against the new code and not the current main/master branch!!