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If you are deploying your app to a VPS (like DigitalOcean or Linode) manually, you might not want to hardcode your production database password into .env.production (which is usually tracked in Git). Instead, you create a .env.local.production file directly on the server. The app will prioritize it, keeping your secrets out of the codebase. 3. Avoiding Git Conflicts
While most developers are familiar with the standard .env or .env.production files, the file is a specialized tool that often causes confusion. Here is everything you need to know about why it exists and how to use it correctly. What is .env.local.production ? .env.local.production
Since .env.local.production is hidden, always maintain a .env.example file so other developers know which keys they need to provide to get the app running. If you are deploying your app to a
: Tells the framework to ignore this file in your version control (Git). This file is meant to stay on your machine or the specific server it was created on. What is
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