# Questions about hugo environment variables

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/questions-about-hugo-environment-variables/17865>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [March 31, 2019, 7:49am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/questions-about-hugo-environment-variables/17865 "2019-03-31T07:49:51Z")\
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> [@numbfall](#):
>
> Not what I was looking for.

He was trying to help (and he pointed you to the `hugo` command, not the “whole documentation”), be grateful and be polite.

So,

You can set it via either

- `HUGO_ENVIRONMENT` os variable
- `--environment` flag

You can get it with `hugo.Environment`. Note that the defaults are `development` for server and `production` for regular `hugo`.

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