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shawnyv's avatar

using env($variable) in production

Hi all,

I'm using Twilio to send voice & text messages. Initializing the service requires sending using an ID / token.

In my dev environment, I used env($variable) to set each of these - but when I did this in production, I found the service didn't initialize. I copied the variables exactly from my homestead .env file to the forge .env file.

Any reason this wouldn't be working for me?

Thanks!

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jasonfrye's avatar

I use Twilio and have env variables calling the ID and token too without issue in dev and production. Are you certain the production environment .env file is being used?

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