How do I use a .env file to manage secrets?

[braveterry]

I have looked here, but it doesn't show the format of the .env file. It's not clear if there are constraints around how it is named either.

This post makes it seem like the .env file is a simple property file with key/value pairs. Based on that, here is what I tried:

I created a "Test Collection".

In the root of the "Test Collection" directory, I created a my.env file that contains this single line:

TEST_APIKEY = 123456789101112

I created a PROD environment and created an entry like this:

I am passing the apikey as a query parameter like this:

When I call the service, here is what gets passed:

As you can see, it's not passing the value.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

[sanjai0py]

Hey! How's it going, @braveterry? I noticed that you've done everything correctly, but it seems like you may have made a small mistake with your env file name. Just wanted to let you know that conventionally, environment variables should contain a leading . in the file name. So instead of my.env, your file should look something like .env. Thanks!

[braveterry]

That worked. I thought I could name the file *.env, but it should literally be named .env. 🙂

Thanks!