Advanced Node and Express - Set up Passport

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I am getting an error express-session deprecated req.secret; provide secret option server.js:16:9
Listening on port 3000
MongoParseError: URI malformed, cannot be parsed https://freecodecam-boilerplate-xuhf289jwg6.ws-us118.gitpod.io/

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Advanced Node and Express - Set up Passport

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Ignore any deprecation warnings.

  • Make sure you are using dotenv and are reading from the .env file.

  • Make sure you added the required SESSION_SECRET environment variable to the .env file.

  • Check your DB connection string is formatted correctly, and again if it is in the .env file make sure you are reading from it correctly.

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I have it in progress.env like

PORT=8080
NODE_ENV=development
MONGO_URI="mongodb+srv://romif:<password>@cluster0.k1h7bvo.mongodb.net/exercice_tracker-db?retryWrites=true&w=majority"
SESSION_SECRET=randommmm
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Did you name the file progress.env? If so, just use .env as the file name.

If you log out the environment variables, do you see them?

The fact that both “provide secret option” and the “MongoParseError: URI malformed” messages are shown, would suggest you are not reading the values from the .env file.

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renaming to .env fix the issue, thank you!