Environment Variables

If things aren't working, check that these are correct for your environment. Contact codeowners for sensitive values.

List of environment variables

Environment Variable	Description
APP_MYSQL_DATABASE	Table name for MySQL database
APP_MYSQL_USERNAME	Username for MySQL database
APP_MYSQL_PASSWORD	Password for MySQL database
APP_MYSQL_HOST	Hostname for MySQL database
APP_MYSQL_PORT	Port number for MySQL database
APP_EMAIL_HOST	Hostname for email server used to send emails
APP_EMAIL_PORT	Port number for email server used to send emails
APP_EMAIL_USERNAME	Email address for email account used to send emails
APP_EMAIL_API_KEY	Key for SendGrid API used to send emails
APP_PUSHER_API_ID	ID for Pusher connection
APP_PUSHER_API_KEY	API Key for Pusher connection
APP_PUSHER_API_SECRET	Secret for Pusher connection
APP_PUSHER_API_CLUSTER	Cluster for Pusher connection
SHOPIFY_DOMAIN	Domain for our Shopify website
SHOPIFY_TOKEN	Token for Shopify Storefront API

IP address of our AWS EC2 server: 54.241.15.160.

How to set environment variables

The commands below show how to set environment variables for Windows and Mac/Unix for the example where APP_MYSQL_PASSWORD is set to password123.

Windows (using Command Prompt)

set ENV_VAR_NAME=env_var_value
set APP_MYSQL_PASSWORD=password123

Windows (using Powershell) Note the leading dollar sign and single quotes around the value. $env:ENV_VAR_NAME = 'VALUE' $env:APP_MYSQL_PASSWORD = 'password123'

Linux/MacOS export ENV_VAR_NAME=env_var_value export APP_MYSQL_PASSWORD=password123

Remember that setting environment variables only makes them available in that particular terminal window. If you open new windows, make sure to set them again.

To set an environment variable for the backend container (such as for debugging Loopback), modify your backend.env file in the deploy/dev/ folder. Then restart the entire docker-compose set of containers (see commands below, docker-compose stop and then docker-compose start).