Auth0 .env values and Netlify

[SeanB]

Hi, I’ve recently deployed my site via Netlify and it has stopped the redirect to my Auth0 domain from working. When I was running the site locally (on localhost:3000) when I click Logon I was redirected correctly as follows: https://mems.eu.auth0.com/authorize? etc. etc.
Now my site is deployed via Netlify when I click Logon I am redirected incorrectly as follows: https://undefined/authorize? etc. etc.

I believe this is because of the way I have configured Auth0 to work on my site where I’m storing my Domain and Client Key in a .env file as follows:
REACT_APP_AUTH0_DOMAIN=MY_DOMAIN
REACT_APP_AUTH0_CLIENT_ID=MY_CLIENT_ID

As .env files are not synced up to GitHub where Netlify deploys from it is not picking up these settings. I have tried to fix this by manually adding the Domain and Client Key to Netlify as environmental variables as follows:
AUTH0_DOMAIN=MY_DOMAIN
AUTH0_CLIENT_ID=MY_CLIENT_ID

However, this hasn’t worked. Any ideas how best to fix this?

[dan.woda]

It looks like these variables still aren’t making it into your netlify deployment, hence the undefined.

You don’t really have to worry about keeping client ID and domain secret, as they will be sent in any request to authenticate, regardless if the user is logged in or anonymous. Anyone that navigates to your web page can access them, more or less. (client secret should never be shared, on the other hand). If you are worried about having domain and client id publicly available you could make the repo private.

I don’t have any experience with netlify secrets, so I won’t be much help debugging that.

[SeanB]

Thanks Dan - this approach works nicely!

[dan.woda]

Great. Thanks for the update!