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Has anyone had issues with Craft parsing a .env on Windows Server? Dotenv is throwing an exception (FileException - invalid name) when parsing the first line of my .env, which is just a comment. I can remove that line and then i complains about the next line.

My .env simple starts with:

# The environment Craft is currently running in (dev, staging, production, etc.)
ENVIRONMENT=dev

basically, Dotenv/Parser/isValidName's Regex call is failing.

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Fatal error: Uncaught Dotenv\Exception\InvalidFileException: Failed to parse dotenv file due to an invalid name. Failed at [ENVIRONMENT]. in C:\WebRoot\WebApplications\advantage-rebate-portal-v4.0\vendor\vlucas\phpdotenv\src\Parser.php:74 

Stack trace: 
#0 C:\WebRoot\WebApplications\advantage-rebate-portal-v4.0\vendor\vlucas\phpdotenv\src\Parser.php(30): Dotenv\Parser::parseName() 

#1 C:\WebRoot\WebApplications\advantage-rebate-portal-v4.0\vendor\vlucas\phpdotenv\src\Loader.php(169): Dotenv\Parser::parse()

#2 C:\WebRoot\WebApplications\advantage-rebate-portal-v4.0\vendor\vlucas\phpdotenv\src\Loader.php(107): Dotenv\Loader->processEntries()

#3 C:\WebRoot\WebApplications\advantage-rebate-portal-v4.0\vendor\vlucas\phpdotenv\src\Loader.php(91): Dotenv\Loader->loadDirect()

#4 C:\WebRoot\WebApplications\advantage-rebate-portal-v4.0\vendor\vlucas\phpdotenv\src\Dotenv.php(123): Dotenv\Loader->load()

#5 C:\WebRoot\WebApplications\advantage-rebate-portal-v4.0\vendor\vlucas\phpdotenv\src\Dotenv.php(80): Dotenv\Dotenv->loadData()

#6 in C:\WebRoot\WebApplications\advantage-rebate-portal-v4.0\vendor\vlucas\phpdotenv\src\Parser.php on line 74
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  • Huh... use dotenv on Windows all the time (granted not Windows Server, but I'd be surprised if that was the issue). Can you edit the question and share the full stack trace leading up to that error?
    – Brad Bell
    Nov 16, 2020 at 1:51
  • Could it possibly be something like text encoding of the .env file? Or PHP config?
    – carbonjoetunis
    Nov 16, 2020 at 14:24
  • Encoding is a possibility - maybe try opening it up in Notepad++, ensure the encoding is UTF-8 and resaving it. You could also go to View->Show Symnbol->Show All Characters to make sure there's no hidden whitespace characters in there screwing things up.
    – Brad Bell
    Nov 16, 2020 at 21:48
  • Yeah, so I owned it in VSCode and it was UTF8 + bass or something. Created a new file as just UTF8, but same problem. I did notice in the logs, where a request comes through and the environment variables are printed out, there is a special/weird (?) character right at the beginning of the file. I'll try to remove it, but I don't see it in VS Code or Notepad. Thanks for the help.
    – carbonjoetunis
    Nov 17, 2020 at 1:13
  • Turns out it WAS a file encoding issue. It was UTF BOM (?), and had a weird hidden character right at the beginning of the file. I was able to open the file up in Notepad++ (Thanks Brad) and was able to convert the file to "normal" UTF8.
    – carbonjoetunis
    Nov 18, 2020 at 1:39

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Turns out it WAS a file encoding issue. It was UTF BOM (?), and had a weird hidden character right at the beginning of the file. I was able to open the file up in Notepad++ (Thanks Brad) and was able to convert the file to "normal" UTF8.

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