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Environment variable in managed approuter

vbalko-claimate — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 17:08:13 GMT

Hello,

is it possible to set environment variables to the application which is deployed through managed approuter (HTML5 applications)?

When app is on standalone app, then I can go to space and there is app router application and I can set my custom env variable there.

But I wonder how to do it in managed approuter. Maybe through mta.yaml?

Re: Environment variable in managed approuter

gregorw — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 20:00:25 GMT

Don't think that this is possible as the approuter is managed. Perhaps you better describe your requirement.

Re: Environment variable in managed approuter

vbalko-claimate — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 16:45:40 GMT

Hi Gregor,

I need to set httpheaders and SEND_XFRAMEOPTIONS as is described here. And because my application is hosted by managed approuter, I am struggling how to perform that.

If there would be standalone approuter - it would be an easy task - because there is UI for setting user environment variables.

Re: Environment variable in managed approuter

mariusobert — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 07:50:02 GMT

gregorw is right, this cannot be done with the managed approuter. All extensions and configurations that go beyond the xs-app.json configuration, require that you use a standalone approuter.

Something similar has been discussed in this comment (in case you want to dig a bit deeper).

Re: Environment variable in managed approuter

vbalko-claimate — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:37:54 GMT

thank you mariusobert - I changed the app to be served by standalone app router. Still have some problems - proper logout through Launchpad - but it is in different question.