Tell us what’s happening:
Describe your issue in detail here.
Cannot seem to pass the SESSION_SECRET test in the .env file; always results in: ‘Error: secret option required for sessions’
Your code so far
'use strict';
require('dotenv').config();
const express = require('express');
const myDB = require('./connection');
const fccTesting = require('./freeCodeCamp/fcctesting.js');
const session = require('express-session');
const passport = require('passport');
const app = express();
app.set('view engine', 'pug');
app.set('views', './views/pug');
app.use(session({
secret: process.env.SESSION_SECRET,
resave: true,
saveUninitialized: true,
cookie: { secure: false }
}));
app.use(passport.initialize());
app.use(passport.session());
fccTesting(app); // For fCC testing purposes
app.use('/public', express.static(process.cwd() + '/public'));
app.use(express.json());
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
app.route('/').get((req, res) => {
res.render('index', { title: 'Hello', message: 'Please log in' });
});
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;
app.listen(PORT, () => {
console.log(`Listening on port ${PORT}`);
});
sample.env
SESSION_SECRET=“aaazxxsss”
**Your browser information:**
User Agent is: <code>Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/108.0.0.0 Safari/537.36</code>
**Challenge:** Advanced Node and Express - Set up Passport
**Link to the challenge:**
https://www.freecodecamp.org/learn/quality-assurance/advanced-node-and-express/set-up-passport