how to enable WHOOGLE_DOTENV=1

[Wdvh]

I searched the issues and google for hours there is no answer as to where and how to put WHOOGLE_DOTENV=1 for a local manual install on macOS Catalina without systemd. I tried different things with the line from the template none load the variables in the whoogle.env. to reliable run it in standard config I needed to do "flask run --host=0.0.0.0" instead of ./run that always resulted in errors.

[benbusby]

What are the errors you're getting from using ./run? And what are the values in whoogle.env? If it's mostly configuration fields that you're trying to set with environment variables, keep in mind that these only modify the "default" session. If you launch the app at any point before modifying the dotenv file, then your browser will create its own session, so modifying these values won't visibly change anything until you clear your cookies. Non-configuration values (like proxies, authentication, etc) are not tied to sessions though.

From a quick test everything is working for me, so I'm going to convert this to a discussion.

[Wdvh]

I'm getting nothing except a blinking cursor and can't open it on the standard port or the port I put in the env file. using flask run I can at least open it on the standard port but it won't use the port or the other variables I put there. Is it really necessary to make so much of a secret out of it that you can't write anywhere what to write where to make it load the variables from the env file. my first sentence clearly states what I want and yet as in every conversation regarding this topic I found in the issues or with google you answer with information I didn't ask for dancing around a clear answer. yes I'm frustrated because nobody seems to be able to say write that there you can only find infos you don't need or care for.

[vdbhb59]

Same here. Where is this whoogle.env file supposed to be? I cannot find any answer anywhere, and the answers I can find refer back to the code and explain in code language only. Example here: #1139
I still cannot find it anywhere. Nor everyone is technical or understands what the python code is doing.