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phpdeploymentenvironment-variables
Miguel Stevens
Miguel Stevens

Reputation: 9221

Environment variables unset on server, using php deployer

On my local machine I'm using docker to serve my php, I included the .env file using the following lines in my docker-compose.yml file, which is working fine, I can see the variables using getenv(), the issue is I can't get them to work on my online server.

Docker (working locally)

app:
  env_file:
    - .env

Deployer config (not working on server)

I use deployer to deploy my website to my host (which is running nginx and php-fpm), using the following deployer script

host('staging')
    ->hostname('app.host.be')
    ->port(22)
    ->stage('staging')
    ->set('deploy_path', '/var/www/')
    ->set('branch', 'master')
    ->identityFile('~/.ssh/id_rsa')
    ->user('admin')
    ->set('env', [
        'MY_ENV' => 'test'
    ]);

I also tried setting the env as outside of the host definition

set('env', [
    'MY_ENV' => 'test'
]);

host('staging')
   ->hostname('app.host.be');

But running getenv() is only returning the following results on my live server

array(2) { ["USER"]=> string(8) "www-data" ["HOME"]=> string(8) "/var/www" }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1453

Answers (1)

benelori
benelori

Reputation: 78

I would leave a comment, but I don't have enough reputation, yet.

Please take a look at this issue https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/issues/1504

Environment variables in PHP are a bit different, they are not really system level variables, the way docker sets it for example.

So the variables you set with deployer are available to PHP for the duration of that run.

Depending on your hosting, you might have enough permissions to modify environment variables on the VM, so you should research a way to modify those. Preferably through a continuous deployment pipeline.

EDIT: please also look into Dotenv in PHP and check out a recommended flow based on that.

Upvotes: 2

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