By catbyte-io
I am currently looking at creating web apps with Laravel and Docker Compose as in the following tutorial:
My question is:
Isn’t it a very large security risk to store login credentials on a server? The tutorial instructs to store your MySQL (or other database) username and password in your ~/example/.env file. Is there any way around this that is more secure?
Thank you for your help, -catbyte
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Hi there,
This is actually a standard practice and the recommended way for many frameworks, including Laravel. Here is the reference in their docs:
https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/configuration#environment-configuration
Though, you should never add your .env file to your Git project.
Best,
Bobby
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