Environments

Mautic follows the Symfony 4.4 environment conventions:

In all environments, Mautic loads the following files if they exist, the latter taking precedence over the former:

  • .env contains default values for the environment variables needed by the app

  • .env.local uncommitted file with local overrides

  • .env.$APP_ENV committed environment-specific defaults

  • .env.$APP_ENV.local uncommitted environment-specific overrides

Real environment variables win over .env files.

Warning

Don’t define secrets in this file, or any other committed files. Set secrets via environment variables, or through other secret management tools.

Run composer dump-env prod to compile .env files for production use (requires symfony/flex >=1.2). Read more about best practices.

By default the structure come with 3 environments .env .env.test .env.test.local

Mautic loads default values filled in the app/config/parameters.php file at installation. These values can be overridden by the .env structure.

Development environment

.env come with two values:

APP_ENV=prod
APP_DEBUG=0

It’s recommended to create the .env.local file. This file overrides the values in .env file. Example:

APP_ENV=dev
APP_DEBUG=1
DB_HOST=...
DB_PORT=3306
DB_NAME=...
DB_USER=...
DB_PASSWD=...
MAUTIC_DB_PREFIX=...
MAUTIC_TABLE_PREFIX=...

Test environment

In the test environment there are two files.

The first one is the default file .env.test that includes credentials used to create a test instance of Mautic.

DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_NAME=mautictest
DB_USER=root
DB_PASSWD=
MAUTIC_DB_PREFIX=test_
MAUTIC_TABLE_PREFIX=test_
MAUTIC_ENV=test
MAUTIC_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin
MAUTIC_ADMIN_PASSWORD=mautic

The second one, .env.test.local includes values for the DDEV local development environment, overriding the .env.test values. It’s recommended making any changes to this file with its values.

DB_HOST=db
DB_USER=db
DB_PASSWD=db
DB_NAME=test
...
MAUTIC_DB_PREFIX=...