Running binary with a .env file

[DeMiro5001]

Hello everyone and thanks for your generous work.
I have downloaded the binary for linux and launched it with the command line switches and it worked, but I didn't use all the switches I needed since it became a very long command. So I created a .env file containing all the environment variables, hoping it works, but it didn't. May be there is something missing or it is not meant to work like that.

Here is the content of the file I created

REMARK_URL=
SECRET=
SITE=
STORE_TYPE=bolt
STORE_BOLT_PATH=./var
STORE_BOLT_TIMEOUT=
ADMIN_TYPE=shared
#ADMIN_RPC_API=
#ADMIN_RPC_TIMEOUT=
#ADMIN_RPC_AUTH_USER=
#ADMIN_RPC_AUTH_PASSWD
#ADMIN_RPC_SECRET_PER_SITE
#ADMIN_SHARED_ID=
#ADMIN_SHARED_EMAIL=
BACKUP_PATH=./var/backup
MAX_BACKUP_FILES=10
CACHE_TYPE=mem
#CACHE_REDIS_ADDR=127.0.0.1:6379
CACHE_MAX_ITEMS=1000
CACHE_MAX_VALUE=65536
CACHE_MAX_SIZE=50000000
AVATAR_TYPE=fs
AVATAR_FS_PATH=./var/avatars
AVATAR_BOLT_FILE=./var/avatars.db
AVATAR_URI=./var/avatars
AVATAR_RESIZE=0
IMAGE_TYPE=fs
IMAGE_FS_PATH=./var/pictures
IMAGE_FS_STAGING=./var/pictures.staging
IMAGE_FS_PARTITIONS=100
IMAGE_BOLT_FILE=/var/pictures.db
#IMAGE_RPC_API=
#IMAGE_RPC_TIMEOUT=
#IMAGE_RPC_AUTH_USER=
#IMAGE_RPC_AUTH_PASSWD
IMAGE_MAX_SIZE=5000000
IMAGE_RESIZE_WIDTH=2400
IMAGE_RESIZE_HEIGHT=900
AUTH_TTL_JWT=5m
AUTH_TTL_COOKIE=200h
AUTH_SEND_JWT_HEADER=false
AUTH_SAME_SITE=default
#AUTH_APPLE_CID=
#AUTH_APPLE_TID=
#AUTH_APPLE_KID=
#AUTH_APPLE_PRIVATE_KEY_FILEPATH=/srv/var/apple.p8
#AUTH_GOOGLE_CID=
#AUTH_GOOGLE_CSEC=
#AUTH_FACEBOOK_CID=
#AUTH_FACEBOOK_CSEC=
#AUTH_MICROSOFT_CID=
#AUTH_MICROSOFT_CSEC=
#AUTH_GITHUB_CID=
#AUTH_GITHUB_CSEC
#AUTH_TWITTER_CID=
#AUTH_TWITTER_CSEC=
#AUTH_PATREON_CID=
#AUTH_PATREON_CSEC=
AUTH_TELEGRAM=false
#AUTH_YANDEX_CID=
#AUTH_YANDEX_CSEC=
AUTH_DEV=false
AUTH_ANON=false
AUTH_EMAIL_ENABLE=true
#[email protected]
AUTH_EMAIL_SUBJ="Confirm your Email"
AUTH_EMAIL_CONTENT_TYPE="text/html"
NOTIFY_USERS=email
NOTIFY_ADMINS=email
NOTIFY_QUEUE=100
#NOTIFY_TELEGRAM_CHAN=
#NOTIFY_SLACK_TOKEN=
#NOTIFY_SLACK_CHAN=
#NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_URL=
#NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_TEMPLATE="{"text": "{{.Text}}"}"
#NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_HEADERS=
NOTIFY_WEBHOOK_TIMEOUT=5s
#[email protected]
#NOTIFY_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_SUBJ="Email verification"
#TELEGRAM_TOKEN=
#TELEGRAM_TIMEOUT=5s
SMTP_HOST=
SMTP_PORT=
SMTP_USERNAME=
SMTP_PASSWORD=
SMTP_LOGIN_AUTH=SMTP_TLS=false
SMTP_STARTTLS=false
SMTP_INSECURE_SKIP_VERIFY=false
SMTP_TIMEOUT=10s
SSL_TYPE=none
SSL_PORT=8443
#SSL_CERT=
#SSL_KEY=
SSL_ACME_LOCATION=./var/acme
#SSL_ACME_EMAIL=
MAX_COMMENT_SIZE=2048
MIN_COMMENT_SIZE=3
MAX_VOTES=-1
VOTES_IP=false
ANON_VOTE=false
VOTES_IP_TIME=5m
LOW_SCORE=-5
CRITICAL_SCORE=-10
POSITIVE_SCORE=false
#RESTRICTED_WORDS=
#RESTRICTED_NAMES=
EDIT_TIME=5m
ADMIN_EDIT=true
#READONLY_AGE=
IMAGE_PROXY_HTTP2HTTPS=false
IMAGE_PROXY_CACHE_EXTERNAL=false
EMOJI=true
SIMPLE_VIEW=false
PROXY_CORS=false
#ALLOWED_HOSTS=
#REMARK_ADDRESS=
REMARK_PORT=8080
REMARK_WEB_ROOT=./thisisfordemo
UPDATE_LIMIT=0.5
SUBSCRIBERS_ONLY=false
DISABLE_SIGNATURE=false
DISABLE_FANCY_HTML_FORMATTING=false
#ADMIN_PASSWD=
DEBUG=false

[umputun]

.env file loaded by docker compose, not by remark42. If you run the binary, you can use source .env first to populate the environment.

[DeMiro5001]

I've already tried it

$ source .env
$ ./remark42.linux-amd64 
remark42 local-20231016T10:52:00
the required flags `--secret' and `--url' were not specified

I checked :

$ echo $REMARK_URL
http://127.0.0.1:8080
$ echo $SECRET
323232

It seems that the secret and url are mandatory even if they are declared in the environment

[umputun]

not sure what shell you use, maybe try to export it. As long as var in os env remark42 will see it

[DeMiro5001]

I'm running bash using konsole on mx-linux 23.
I will try that, thanks a lot

[paskal]

Hi, did you manage to make it work at the end of the day?

[DeMiro5001]

Yes it works but I got my mail server screwed by the host provider, so I didn't check the smtp settings (that are required for a lot of features). Will check it as soon as I move it to another provider.
Thanks again