How can I pass environment variables (to configure freescout/laravel)?

[thomasplevy]

As nearly as I can tell the only supported environment variables are those defined in the repo's README.md:

https://github.com/tiredofit/docker-freescout?tab=readme-ov-file#environment-variables

I'd like to be able to set additional (arbitrary) env vars that will be used by various functions of the underlying application, primarily, for example, using S3.

I could do this by manually modifying the config.php file but it would be ideal to be able to pass the env variables into the container instead.

I can't find anyway to do this and based on reading through the various scripts I believe that it's not possible but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thanks

[tiredofit]

You should be able to add some environent variables into your .env or (or also known as /data/config). Does that help?

[thomasplevy]

TLDR;

Okay I see, I the /data/.env can be modified. Thank you!

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The comment at the top:

#### Automatically Generated File - Upon container restart any settings will reset!

led me to assume that if I added anything to the file it would be lost on restart so I never even tested it. I just assumed it wouldn't work.

So... is the idea that the container-specific variables, defined in the README will get overwritten?

Edit: tested to confirm and it looks like that's the case.

May I suggest adding a comment at the end of the "container-controlled" variables to eliminate this confusion in the future? Or possibly adding something into the README that describes how to "pass" variables directly to freescout for this purpose?

I'm going to do some more testing in a bit and can report back but I'm pretty confident it's trivial to do this and based on that comment alone it looked very much like it was impossible. Screw me for reading the manual I guess?

Thanks again!