Errors Encountered Following ReadMe

[ttuvera1125]

For context, I am new at anything tech/coding-related. I tried to follow your ReadMe instructions but I kept on encountering errors:

1. On Step 2 Create Collections, it kept on returning an error message that showed the username, password, and host were not given even though I already added that to the .env file. What I did was I added an import os, from dotenv import load_dotenv, and load_dotenv() lines on the cli/admin.py file and it worked. -> Was what I did wrong? How should I have addressed the issues instead?

2. On Step 3 Launching the API, when I run uvicorn src.whyhow_api.main:app I get this error:
   

[recchris]

Hey @ttuvera1125, looks like the script is not able to access the environment variables. Can you confirm that you copied .env.sample to .env? Also, depending on where you're running this code, you may need to restart your terminal/IDE for the .env changes to propagate. (This sometimes happen to those who run using the terminal in VS code). Hope that helps.

[recchris]

We also just pushed a new version of the src/whyhow_api/cli/admin.py script. Could you pull the latest and create the db + collections + indexes using this new script. Thx!

[ttuvera1125]

Hey @ttuvera1125, looks like the script is not able to access the environment variables. Can you confirm that you copied .env.sample to .env? Also, depending on where you're running this code, you may need to restart your terminal/IDE for the .env changes to propagate. (This sometimes happen to those who run using the terminal in VS code). Hope that helps.

Hi @recchris yep, I did copy the .env.sample to .env. I also restarted my terminal, VS Code, and re-tried running python admin.py setup-collections --config-file collection_index_config.json but I still get a ValueError: 'username', 'password', and 'host' must be supplied.

[recchris]

Hey @ttuvera1125, you might find this comment thread helpful from our Discord...someone had a similar issue - https://discord.com/channels/1218729941982646272/1218731001056989214/1313574010646302761. If you're continuing to run into issues, you might just try hardcoding the values directly into the config.py just to see if you can get it working.

Please also try deleting and re-installing with the newer version we pushed on Friday. Thx!

[dayday2019]

I have the same question

[recchris]

@dayday2019 did you get this working?

[csucjh]

cp .env.sample .env change to cp .env.sample ./src/whyhow_api/cli/.env

[njosh13]

cp .env.sample .env change to cp .env.sample ./src/whyhow_api/cli/.env

I had the same issue and this has worked for me thanks.

[begonia582194]

run this code :
python src/whyhow_api/cli/admin.py setup-collections --config-file collection_index_config.json