New .env file in version 22.1 – Xentral help center

This information is only relevant for customers with an on-premise instance.

In the root of a xentral installation has to be a file called .env. If it is not present you can copy .env.prod there.

This file is the upcoming place for credentials.

APP_KEY

This value is used for encryption/decryption. We provide a default key, to not run into errors.

To generate a new unique key, execute php artisan key:generate .

Do this once after the update to 22.1.

This variable is used to generate Url’s outside of the web context. Please add the URL incl. the protocol to this variable.

Example: APP_URL=https://xentral.mydomain.tld

In a future update we will move configuration values like database credentials to this file.