Difficulties defining environment variables in netlify.toml

[dafoobar]

Hi all,

I have trouble getting environment variables to work. In my netlify.toml I have:

[context.production]
  environment = { GIT_LFS_ENABLED = "true" , GIT_LFS_FETCH_INCLUDE = "*.eot, *.woff, *.woff2 }

The deploy logs show no errors:

5:25:46 PM: ❯ Current directory
5:25:46 PM:   /opt/build/repo
5:25:46 PM: ​
5:25:46 PM: ❯ Config file
5:25:46 PM:   /opt/build/repo/netlify.toml
5:25:46 PM: ​
5:25:46 PM: ❯ Context
5:25:46 PM:   production

It works, if I define the vars in the app.netlify.com GUI, but never if I use netlify.toml. Can anyone give an advice? Thanks.

[perry]

hi there, did you read this guide already?

[Support Guide] Using environment variables on Netlify correctly

Last reviewed: August 2023 The preferred way to use environment variables in Netlify is to set them in our environment - be that in the Environment Variables settings UI (on the site’s “Build & Deploy settings” page), or via netlify.toml. You’ll want to choose the right pattern to meet your needs. Setting variables in our UI may be considered a bit more secure, since only people with access to the Netlify admin UI for your site can see them, rather than “anyone who can clone your repo!”. Thes…

[dafoobar]

Hi,
of course I’ve read numerous guides on this topic before posting my request for help.

[luke]

Hi, @dafoobar. I believe I have already answered this question here:

Defining environment variables for git LFS in netlify.toml

Hi, @dafoobar. This environment variable is needed before the clone of the repo. The netlify.toml file is only available after the repo cloning it done. At that point it it too late to set this environment variable. For this reason, it can only be set in the web UI. If there are other questions about this, please let us know.

If there are other questions after reading that, please let us know.