Hi Apologies if this has been asked before, but I’m new to Hugo, and I thought the best way to understand it would be to build a new theme. My code is on a public repository in Github , and I’d like to keep it as a publicly available resource. I am trying to add a Google reCAPTCHA to my contact fo…

It doesn’t seem like Hugo reads a .env file automatically so you will need to source it before you run the hugo command. Maybe make a feature request for this. A .env file like this: HUGO_gtm=abc123 Then run: source .env After that you can access the variable in a Hugo template with: {{ getenv…

[image] hugo_elliott: My code is on a public repository in Github , and I’d like to keep it as a publicly available resource Consider making the theme its own repo; then you can keep your site configuration private. :slight_smile:

Hi @frjo Thank you. Unfortunately when I run source .env in my terminal in the root folder of the project, nothing happens. If I run hugo source .env I get an error message error: unknown command “source” for “hugo” and if I run hugo -s .env I get the error Error: Unable to locat…

Hi @maiki Thank you for the suggestion, agreed yes I’d be able to keep api keys private. I’m not sure it solves my issue of trying to make Hugo access the variables the .env file? I could aways put the api keys in the config file (in a private repo), but it doesn’t seem to be best practise. I run…

[image] hugo_elliott: Thank you. Unfortunately when I run source .env in my terminal in the root folder of the project, nothing happens. You’ll need to look up what source does: Dot (command) - Wikipedia In this context this is allowing you to save your variable and read it, but it is ju…

Thank you @maiki for your advice, I’ll let you know how I get on

$ export HUGO_PARAMS_XXX_KEY=1234567890ABCDEFG {{ getenv "HUGO_PARAMS_XXX_KEY" }}

Did you try using ‘secrets’ in your github repository @hugo_elliott ? Secrets on repo are controlled and you can decide who can see them.

Keeping API keys secret (on Github) using a .env file

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Did you find a way @hugo_elliot ?

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