Caddy v2 environment variables

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Hi,

I’ve been reading over the v2 docs relating to the JSON configuration at JSON Config Structure - Caddy Documentation.

I can’t find anything relating to environment variables support, as available in v1. https://caddyserver.com/v1/docs/caddyfile#env.

Does the JSON configuration support environment variables?

Thanks,
Scott.

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Great question – yes it does! You can use them as described here: Conventions — Caddy Documentation

FYI this is currently in motion, on its way to improvements, so it may not be fully fleshed out yet. e.g. transform a caddyfile with environment variables by sarge · Pull Request #2963 · caddyserver/caddy · GitHub

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Ah, awesome! Thanks for that.

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Is there plans to allow defining environment variables from .env files like it was done for v1? Load environment variables from a .env file · Issue #1941 · caddyserver/caddy · GitHub

Thanks a lot for your outstanding work on Caddy!

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That’s a good question. Could you open up an issue for this? Issues · caddyserver/caddy · GitHub

In the meantime, I think you could hack this by using a bash script to set the environment before running Caddy. There’s some good ideas for that here: bash - Set environment variables from file of key/value pairs - Stack Overflow

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Sure, will open an issue in some mins

Meanwhile, I was able to workaround this by using:

set -a
source .env
set +a
caddy run

And might also be able to use tools like npm’s dotenv-cli or ruby’s dotenv

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