.env not taking effect?

[badmonky]

I am at my wits end. Installed, updated the env file for X (setup x app as well).

But its not working. From what i can tell it looks like the env vars are not taking effect.

E.g. i still have /api/ in the NEXT_PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL as set in the start.sh

NEXT_PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL="${CLOUDRON_APP_ORIGIN}/api"

I overwrote them in my env file

MAIN_URL="https://postiz.mydomain.com"
FRONTEND_URL="https://postiz.mydomain.com"
NEXT_PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL="https://postiz.mydomain.com"

But in the network tab, i see it trying to hit /api in the Request URL

Also, based on this discord chat on postiz I assume the /api is outdated?
https://discord.com/channels/1243410146097500202/1413958563579297892/1413958563579297892

Just to clarify. Yes i did restart the cloudron app after editing the env file.

[james]

Hello @badmonky

The environment variables MAIN_URL, FRONTEND_URL and NEXT_PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL are set in the start.sh and can't be overwritten by the /app/data/env file.
See https://git.cloudron.io/packages/postiz-app/-/blob/master/start.sh?ref_type=heads#L36-L38

MAIN_URL="${CLOUDRON_APP_ORIGIN}"
FRONTEND_URL="${CLOUDRON_APP_ORIGIN}"
NEXT_PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL="${CLOUDRON_APP_ORIGIN}/api"

[james]

Maybe we should take a step back.
Can you explain to me why you want to manually overwrite these variables?

[badmonky]

Because thats what the dicsord conversation said (i realize they don't use cloudron).

The issue is that i cannot add the x channel. The UI does not give any helpful errors other than a "could not connect to the platform" popup for 2sec.

When i look at the network tab, i get the above mentioned request made to
https://postiz.mydomain.com/api/integrations/social/x

with response: {"err":true}

thats how i got to suspect that the /api is the issue.

If i am however on the wrong track. then let me know what else i could try.

that said. If I can't overwrite the env file, then the docs are wrong i guess? (https://docs.cloudron.io/packages/postiz/#customization), and how am I going to add the API keys for the providers?

[james]

Hello @badmonky

@badmonky said in .env not taking effect?:

If I can't overwrite the env file, then the docs are wrong i guess?

No. Cloudron has to do hard overwrite certain environment variables to ensure the functionality of apps.
I will update the docs to better explain it.

[james]

Hello @badmonky
The documentation will be updated today.

---

I have tried to reproduce your issue.
Installed Postiz from the Cloudron app store and after following the guide for X https://docs.postiz.com/providers/x-twitter and adding:

X_API_KEY="myApiKey"
X_API_SECRET="MyApiSecret"

to /app/data/env and restarting the app, I was able to login into my x.com account and create a post with no issue.

[badmonky]

I just uninstalled the postiz app, reinstalled it. Added the key and secret to /app/data/env and restarted.

Still getting the exact same behavior as before.

Any ideas how to troubleshoot this?

[badmonky]

As a side note. I think the info from this post should be added to the docs as well:
https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13483/postiz-won-t-log-in-not-activated/2

[badmonky]

Update:
I restarted the app again, and now it worked. I don't know what may have been the issue, but something seems to have a mind of it's own.