Symfony 5 Warning PutEnv has been disabled for security reasons

[xrayian]

Website

http://experiments-101.epizy.com/public/index.php

Error Message

Warning: putenv() has been disabled for security reasons

Other Information

I’m new to symfony and don’t know very much about how the framework operates. I understand that you can’t enable putenv() on your server, so i was hoping you could give some suggestions to set some environment variables namely mysql database login information and app_environment
using other means.

[Ergastolator1]

Like the last 36 times that question was asked, no, this extension is not, will not and cannot be enabled on free hosting.

Please see Admin’s most recent reply for more Information as to why:

Putenv Has been disabled

I’m sorry, but putenv is not and cannot be enabled on free hosting. There are usually one of two reasons why putenv may be necessary: Your software needs to set environment variables to pass to system commands. But executing system commands is blocked on our hosting entirely, so no need to have any functions which set parameters for system commands. If your software needs to do system commands, that means the software cannot be hosted on our hosting. Your software uses .env files for configur…

[xrayian]

Does .env work here ?

[Niekon]

I have a Laravel website who’s .env works fine.

[xrayian]

Okay this post was kinda stupid, I looked around the errors and what php was trying to do was set a environment variable, so I declared it in .env file and did some console updates and my site is running fine now. thanks for the support