# Please help to change our production Environment type to "remote"

**URL:** <https://community.forestadmin.com/t/please-help-to-change-our-production-environment-type-to-remote/1107>\
**Category:** Help me!\
**Created:** [October 9, 2020, 9:11am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/please-help-to-change-our-production-environment-type-to-remote/1107 "2020-10-09T09:11:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rogaps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@rogaps](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/rogaps)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 9:11am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/please-help-to-change-our-production-environment-type-to-remote/1107/1 "2020-10-09T09:11:57Z")

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I am trying to delete my “production” environment and according to [Environment partially deleted?](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/environment-partially-deleted/1027), I cannot delete the environment unless it’s type is changed to “remote”.

## Expected behavior

Be able to change ENV type to “remote”.

## Actual behavior

I cannot find the setting to set the Environment type both in [app.forestadmin.com](http://app.forestadmin.com) and forest-cli.

## Context

- ENV ID: 60481

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**Author:** ![arnaud](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/arnaud/32/32_2.png) [@arnaud](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/arnaud)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2020, 12:07pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/please-help-to-change-our-production-environment-type-to-remote/1107/2 "2020-10-09T12:07:05Z")

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Hi @rogaps,  
Welcome to our Forest Admin community!  
`production` environments cannot be deleted for security reasons.

Why don’t you want to keep your production environment alive?

Thanks for your response

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**Author:** ![rogaps](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/fbc32d/32.png) [@rogaps](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/rogaps)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/please-help-to-change-our-production-environment-type-to-remote/1107/3 "2020-10-10T13:50:02Z")

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Hi @arnaud,  
Thanks for your response.

I lost my FOREST\_AUTH\_SECRET and I don’t know how to recover it. My application cannot connect to Forest Admin UI in environment production without FOREST\_AUTH\_SECRET. I want to recreate the production environment.

Regards

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**Author:** ![arnaud](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.forestadmin.com/arnaud/32/32_2.png) [@arnaud](https://community.forestadmin.com/u/arnaud)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2020, 6:25am UTC](https://community.forestadmin.com/t/please-help-to-change-our-production-environment-type-to-remote/1107/4 "2020-10-12T06:25:19Z")

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The `FOREST_AUTH_SECRET` is a key generated by yourself to sign the session tokens of your admin users. See more about that here:

> **[How it works](https://docs.forestadmin.com/documentation/reference-guide/how-it-works#security)**

You can choose an value you want for this environment variable.  
So no need to re-create a production environment for that matter.