notifications-admin/docs/debug-issues-with-staging-api.md

Setting Up Environment Variables for Local Development to the Staging API

When you’re working locally, you can point your local admin repo to the staging API and use that to help debug issues with the staging data set. To do this, you’ll need to modify your .env file for the admin project and include the following new environment variables:

• ADMIN_CLIENT_SECRET
• ADMIN_CLIENT_USERNAME
• DANGEROUS_SALT
• SECRET_KEY

Additionally, update API_HOST_NAME and NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT:

1. Change API_HOST_NAME to API_HOST_NAME=https://notify-api-staging.app.cloud.gov
2. Change NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT to NOTIFY_ENVIRONMENT=staging

Retrieving Environment Variables for Staging

You can retrieve the values needed for these by using the cf CLI (Cloud Foundry CLI tool) and making sure you’re targeting the notify-staging space.

1. cf login -a [api.fr.cloud.gov](http://api.fr.cloud.gov/) --sso
2. select notify-staging
3. cf env notify-admin-staging

By pointing your local environment to staging, it should mirror what's in staging.