Have a problem with passing "Use the .env File" of "APIs and Microservices" course

JavaScript
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Hello everybody and Happy Easter to everyone.

This is the first time I asking question to the forum. Usually when I had some problems in the freecodecamp courses, sooner or later I would figure them out, but with six’s exercise of APIs and Microservices I just stuck. I don’t know what i’m doing wrong, but I just can’t pass this test. Only one thing I pretty sure of, there is probably some simple fix or something trivial that I missed, probably because I super dumb.

Okay, now less about the feeling and more about the data : I done all my previous tests on replit, so using “Secret” button I created variable MESSAGE_STYLE=uppercase (replit doesn’t allows to create .env’s), created the function : https://replit.com/@NotSure1/boilerplate-express#myApp.js,
clicked run and it’s somehow not found.
Okay, I said to myself (I doing that a lot recently), maybe it’s just a buggy environment. And so I cloned the repo from the github and created myself account on glitch (Glitch :･ﾟ✧), where you can create .env’s file. I copied the function, created the same .env (MESSAGE_STYLE=uppercase ) and … I still failed. I don’t know what else to do. I pretty sure that function is right, with env’s I tried different combination to no avail.

So now, you guys, my only hope.

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I don’t know why it’s saying Not found
but one thing you need to do is to move this

const mySecret = process.env['MESSAGE_STYLE'];

inside the route. As you need the value of the variable when the route is requested, not when the application start

try reading this post for more infos

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After your reply I took another look at my code and realized that I commented out :

let absolutePath = __dirname + “/views/index.html”;
app.get(“/”, function(req, res) {
res.sendFile(absolutePath);
});

app.use(“/public”, express.static(__dirname + “/public”));

That’s why my code wasn’t working. Anyway, thanks a lot. Problem found : I’m an idiot. No one can fix that.

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