Error: missing secret key. A secret key is needed to secure Payload.

notchr7 months ago

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  creonico8 months ago

  Alright, thank you again

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  notchr8 months ago

  If you do find out, let me know for sure, im glad it works though 😄

  
  
  

  That's the extent of my knowledge though, not sure if there's some process that pulls it in the first time

  
  
  

  Otherwise they are pulled in via an .env file and the dotenv library

  
  
  

  And im not sure, typically environment variables are only added if they are declared as part of a command or manually declared

  
  
  

  Good question, not the first time I've seen it too

  
  
  

  Hmm

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  creonico8 months ago

  It was working yesterday without dotenv/config

  
  
  

  it works now, thank you. But may I know why it failed before?

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  notchr8 months ago

  Then try logging again

  
  
  

  at the top

  
  
  

  import 'dotenv/config'

  
  
  

  can you try to add

  
  
  

  Okay lets try to fix that

  
  
  

  Ah

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  creonico8 months ago

  It prints but it does not contain the variables in my .env

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  notchr8 months ago

  Try logging it prior to the buildConfig

  
  
  

  And when doing so, is it an object with the expected variables

  
  
  

  For instance, can you log the value of your process.env

  
  
  @254395642565099530

  Is your .env being picked up correctly?

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  creonico8 months ago

  This was working yesterday in sveltekit, but today if fails with this error after I npm run dev:

  
  Error: missing secret key. A secret key is needed to secure Payload.
  

  But my config has the secret PAYLOAD_SECRET property from my .env file:

  
  

  import path from 'path'
  import { buildConfig } from 'payload'
  import { fileURLToPath } from 'url'
  import { postgresAdapter } from '@payloadcms/db-postgres'
  
  import { Products } from './collections/Products'
  
  const filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)
  const dirname = path.dirname(filename)
  
  export default buildConfig({
    collections: [Products],
    secret: process.env.PAYLOAD_SECRET || '',
    typescript: {
      outputFile: path.resolve(dirname, 'payload-types.ts'),
    },
    db: postgresAdapter({
      pool: {
        connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URI || '',
      },
    })
  })

  
  

  I then use the local API as such, this is where the error comes from but it was working yesterday

  
  

  import config from '../../payload.config'
  import { getPayload } from 'payload';
  
  const payload = await getPayload({ config });
  
  export async function load() {
    const data = await payload.findByID({
      collection: 'products',
      id: 1
    });
  
    return data;
  }

  
  

  I have not changed my package.json at all, in fact, I only ran the command since yesterday and now it gives me this error. I am using payload 3.0.0-beta.74