My env variables are not working in production (even while using PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_ prefix)

ignism

3 months ago

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admin: {
...
   preview: (doc) => {
      const page = doc as any as Home;
      
      let pathToUse = '';
      
      if (page.page) {
        pathToUse = page.page.slug === 'home' ? '' : page.page.slug;
      }

      return `${process.env.PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_WEB_URL}/api/preview? url=${process.env.PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_WEB_URL}/${pathToUse}`;
    },
...
}

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  derosul

  3 months ago

  I'm pretty sure the

  PAYLOAD_PUBLIC_

  env variables are being replaced when you build payload (probably somewhere in your CI pipeline) Perhaps you need to define the env variables you want to use for production in there as well 🙂

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  ignism

  3 months ago

  When I add

  dotenv.config()

  it appears to be working

  
  

  
  

  it just feels like this is not what the docs are trying me to tell

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  jarrod_not_jared

  Payload Team

  3 months ago

  check out this thread:

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/1654
  
  

  Can you point me to the docs that confused you? Maybe we need to clean a section up

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  ignism

  2 months ago

  Actually this reply sums it nice up:

  https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/issues/1654#issuecomment-1403972303
  

  
  

  I guess I was looking at it the wrong way, I just looked at it as one build. But there is of course a separation in server and client build.