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LXer: Introduction To PowerShell Environment Variables

Published at LXer: Environment variables are system-defined variables that store values used by the operating system and applications. For example, on a Windows machine, information like the CPU...



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Environment Variables in Apache and Xampp

Few days back one of my friend's project database credentials got exposed. After some investigation, we realized that it is because of the .git config commit. I would recommend configuring your sensitive credentials with operating system environment variables. This way you can protect information from the code base. This post will explain how to set up an environment variable for an Apache web server.





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Introducing Env: a better way to read environment variables in JavaScript

If you write server-side JavaScript, chances are you’ve need to read information from environment variables. It’s considered a best practice to share sensitive information, such as access tokens, inside of environment variables to keep them secure. However, the way environment variables are read from JavaScript is error-prone in subtle ways that might take you hours...




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Securing persistent environment variables using ZEIT Now

I’m a big fan of ZEIT Now1 as an application hosting provider. The way the service abstracts all of the cloud computing details and allows teams to focus on building and deploying web applications is fantastic. That said, I had a lot of trouble setting up secure environment variables for my first application to use....