# Cannot login to Forest Admin from either environment

**URL:** https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598
**Category:** Help me!
**Created:** [June 2, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598 "2021-06-02T14:37:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/1 "2021-06-02T14:37:00Z")

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## Expected behavior

I should be able to login to Forest Admin from both Production and DEVELOPMENT.

## Actual behavior

I’m not able to login to Forest Admin from either Production or DEVELOPMENT.

## Failure Logs

Production

```javascript
0|server | [forest] 🌳🌳🌳 Unable to register the client
0|server | {
0|server | "configuration": {
0|server | "authorization_endpoint": "https://api.forestadmin.com/oidc/auth",
0|server | "device_authorization_endpoint": "https://api.forestadmin.com/oidc/device/auth",
0|server | "claims_parameter_supported": false,
0|server | "claims_supported": [
0|server | "sub",
0|server | "email",
0|server | "sid",
0|server | "auth_time",
0|server | "iss"
0|server | ],
0|server | "code_challenge_methods_supported": [
0|server | "S256"
0|server | ],
0|server | "end_session_endpoint": "https://api.forestadmin.com/oidc/session/end",
0|server | "grant_types_supported": [
0|server | "authorization_code",
0|server | "urn:ietf:params:oauth:grant-type:device_code"
0|server | ],
0|server | "id_token_signing_alg_values_supported": [
0|server | "HS256",
0|server | "RS256"
0|server | ],
0|server | "issuer": "https://api.forestadmin.com",
0|server | "jwks_uri": "https://api.forestadmin.com/oidc/jwks",
0|server | "registration_endpoint": "https://api.forestadmin.com/oidc/reg",
0|server | "response_modes_supported": [
0|server | "query"
0|server | ],
0|server | "response_types_supported": [
0|server | "code",
0|server | "none"
0|server | ],
0|server | "scopes_supported": [
0|server | "openid",
0|server | "email",
0|server | "profile"
0|server | ],
0|server | "subject_types_supported": [
0|server | "public"
0|server | ],
0|server | "token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported": [
0|server | "none"
0|server | ],
0|server | "token_endpoint_auth_signing_alg_values_supported": [],
0|server | "token_endpoint": "https://api.forestadmin.com/oidc/token",
0|server | "request_object_signing_alg_values_supported": [
0|server | "HS256",
0|server | "RS256"
0|server | ],
0|server | "request_parameter_supported": false,
0|server | "request_uri_parameter_supported": true,
0|server | "require_request_uri_registration": true,
0|server | "claim_types_supported": [
0|server | "normal"
0|server | ]
0|server | },
0|server | "registration": {
0|server | "redirect_uris": [
0|server | "autohound.gyroscopictestdev.xyz/forest/authentication/callback"
0|server | ],
0|server | "token_endpoint_auth_method": "none"
0|server | },
0|server | "error": {
0|server | "error": "invalid_redirect_uri",
0|server | "error_description": "Redirect uris must be an array of valid urls"
0|server | }
0|server | }

```

Local:

```javascript
Your application is listening on port 3310.
[forest] 🌳🌳🌳 An error occured while retrieving your IP whitelist. Your Forest envSecret seems to be missing or unknown. Can you check that you properly set your Forest envSecret in the Forest initializer?
{}
Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/projects
[forest] 🌳🌳🌳 Cannot find the project related to the envSecret you configured. Can you check on Forest that you copied it properly in the Forest initialization?
{}

```

## Context

Please provide any relevant information about your setup.

Dependencies in Forest Admin

```javascript
    "bcrypt": "^5.0.1",
    "body-parser": "1.19.0",
    "chalk": "~1.1.3",
    "cookie-parser": "1.4.4",
    "cors": "2.8.5",
    "debug": "~4.0.1",
    "dotenv": "~6.1.0",
    "express": "~4.17.1",
    "express-jwt": "5.3.1",
    "forest-express-mongoose": "^7.6.0",
    "mongoose": "~5.8.2",
    "morgan": "1.9.1",
    "require-all": "^3.0.0"

```

- Package Version: “0.0.1”
- Express Version: “~4.17.1”
- Forest Express Mongoose Version: “”
- Sequelize Version:
- Database Dialect: Mongoose
- Database Version: Mongo v4.4.3
- Project Name: “autohound”  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/2/2053722d4a9a13f37eb498e44775bcecc3494fdb.png)  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/2/262495144b6ca4975a8241bbe53124dd0454e594.png)  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/f/ff8dc9366c53470f71409c8b1d28a961b7daab9e.png)

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/2 "2021-06-02T14:53:52Z")

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Hi @Lean_Junio !  
Can you share which call is failing on the application ?  
And your environment variables ?

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/3 "2021-06-02T15:10:28Z")

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Hey Nicolas,

Is this what you’re talking about in terms of call?

```javascript
> autohound@0.0.1 start
> node ./server.js

(node:616094) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'count' of module exports inside circular dependency
(Use `node --trace-warnings ...` to show where the warning was created)
(node:616094) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'findOne' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:616094) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'remove' of module exports inside circular dependency
(node:616094) Warning: Accessing non-existent property 'updateOne' of module exports inside circular dependency
Your application is listening on port 3310.
Your admin panel is available here: https://app.forestadmin.com/projects

```

As for the environment variables, are you talking about the ones in `.env` or the ones in the `/etc/environments`?

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 3:29pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/4 "2021-06-02T15:29:15Z")

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I’m talking aobut the call that fails in your browser 🙂  
And the variables inside your `.env` file yes

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/5 "2021-06-02T15:33:31Z")

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Ah, gotcha.

local .env

```javascript
APPLICATION_PORT=3310
APPLICATION_URL=http://localhost:3310

CORS_ORIGINS=

DATABASE_URL=mongodb://localhost:27017/<db-name>
DOCKER_DATABASE_URL=mongodb://host.docker.internal:27017/<db-name>
DATABASE_SSL=false
# This should be removed in production environment.
DATABASE_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED=false

FOREST_AUTH_SECRET=XXX
FOREST_ENV_SECRET=XXX

```

prod env

```javascript
APPLICATION_PORT=3310
APPLICATION_URL=http://localhost:3310

CORS_ORIGINS=

DATABASE_URL=mongodb://<username>:<password>@localhost:27017/<prod-db-name>
DOCKER_DATABASE_URL=mongodb://host.docker.internal:27017/<prod-db-name>
DATABASE_SSL=false

```

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/f/fddb00e8b18ab627019bef777690741f4cd18734.png)

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 3:47pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/6 "2021-06-02T15:47:36Z")

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Can you check in the project settings that the right env\_secret is configured ?

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/7 "2021-06-02T15:54:10Z")

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It turns out that on the DEVELOPMENT environment, the FOREST\_ENV\_SECRET key didn’t match the one in my local .env.

I replaced it with the secret key set for the DEVELOPMENT environment so that it’s matching. I think that one is good now (hopefully).

However, I’m still getting the Unable to authenticate error on the Production environment.

I can confirm that the `FOREST_ENV_SECRET` in `/etc/environment` matches the one in the Forest Admin Production settings.

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 4:30pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/8 "2021-06-02T16:30:54Z")

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I’m also reviewing the following on the POST /forest/authentication for the production environment if this helps.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/2/22048d6edf768df496230fddcc80ce83f189047f.png)

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2021, 5:18pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/9 "2021-06-02T17:18:07Z")

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Another additional piece of information.  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/a/a6fe85d0027a7419012b2748af3282c51777bcc4.png)

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/11 "2021-06-03T08:06:46Z")

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What is your `APPLICATION_URL` for your production environment ?  
Looking at what you shared, it should be `https://autohound.gyroscopictestdev.xyz`

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 11:53am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/12 "2021-06-03T11:53:23Z")

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Yes. That’s what is currently in my .env file for `APPLICATION_URL`. It’s actually the same instance where I have Forest Admin installed in.

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/13 "2021-06-03T13:33:17Z")

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With the `https://` ? Because in your log it has `"autohound.gyroscopictestdev.xyz/forest/authentication/callback"`

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 1:46pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/14 "2021-06-03T13:46:22Z")

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Yes.

![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/3/36709b29010e655aa6d92fbff31e4ad07006f26b.png)

Do I need to have the `APPLICATION_URL` in the `/etc/environment` file as well?

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 2:15pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/15 "2021-06-03T14:15:03Z")

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Is there a possibility that Forest Admin is caching? It seems like the log doesn’t have the `https` unless it’s being parsed out from the env variables for some reason…?

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/16 "2021-06-03T14:28:57Z")

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The `redirect_uri` is built from the environment variable and is used to cache part of the openId configuration yes, however if the APPLICATION\_URL changes it should not be a problem. Furthermore when you restart your environment, the cache is not persisted.

Let me look into it some more

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 2:31pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/17 "2021-06-03T14:31:47Z")

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I see… Thanks @anon94532230. Really appreciate it!

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 2:46pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/18 "2021-06-03T14:46:26Z")

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We are going to release a new version of our internal backend to get more data in the error, I’ll tell you when you can test it !

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/19 "2021-06-03T14:48:05Z")

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In the meantime can you make sure that you only set the required environment variables inside the local .env (and none in the `/etc/environment`) ? Just to be sure nothing is getting overwritten 🙂

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### Author: ![anon94532230](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a587f6/32.png) [@anon94532230](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/anon94532230)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/20 "2021-06-03T15:00:39Z")

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@Lean_Junio can you try again ? We just released our backend, we should have more information on why it fails 🙂

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### Author: ![Lean\_Junio](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/lean_junio/32/1273_2.png) [@Lean\_Junio](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/Lean_Junio)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/cannot-login-to-forest-admin-from-either-environment/2598/21 "2021-06-03T15:20:06Z")

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Great! Thanks!

Yeah I just tried it, unfortunately still the same thing.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/1/1d3492ead20526cd556998873d4e10bc58efc0d5.png)  
 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/forest/original/2X/3/368980a6d0c9e453190284255906ba9adfdee901.png)

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