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Hi.
I am working my way through the Subscriptions with Stripe tutorial - https://laracasts.com/lessons/painless-subscriptions-with-laravel-and-stripe and have come across a problem.
During the tutorial (10:20) Jeffery states that you need to 'On your production server, set a Stripe secret environment variable equal to your production API key'.
I have no idea how to do this.
I would very much appreciate it if anyone can advise.
Thanks
Barry.
He just means setting this
$_ENV['STRIPE_KEY']
or
getenv('STRIPE_KEY')
You can set these in your Laravel application using .env.php (L4) or .env (L5)
Lesson for Forge: https://laracasts.com/series/server-management-with-forge/episodes/5
Normal app: https://laracasts.com/lessons/private-keys-go-here
Lesson for the .env.php (.env is similar) file: edit: https://laracasts.com/lessons/private-keys-go-here
@bashy @PhaxeNor Thanks for your answers guys a big help and very much appreciated.
@PhaxerNor the link you gave didnt work. However I found another video on the site https://laracasts.com/lessons/private-keys-go-here so maybe its been updated?
Ah yeah my link was for Forge, but you get the idea :)
@appnorth that is the one I was supposed to link. Think I forgot a part of it :P
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