ERROR [ExceptionHandler] : MeeloException [Error]: API_KEY or API_KEYS Environment variable is missing

[aegri83]

I am trying to set up Meelo but keep getting this error for meelo-server:

[+] Running 5/5
✔ Container meelo-redis-1 Running 0.0s
✔ Container meelo-db-1 Healthy 0.5s
✔ Container meelo-meilisearch-1 Runni... 0.0s
✔ Container meelo-transcoder-1 Starte... 0.0s
✘ Container meelo-server-1 Error 8.6s
dependency failed to start: container meelo-server-1 is unhealthy

Checking the logs for meelo-server-1:

Prisma schema loaded from prisma/schema.prisma

Datasource "db": PostgreSQL database "[dbname]", schema "public" at "db:5432"

Already in sync, no schema change or pending migration was found.

07/05/2025, 6:43:23 PM LOG [NestFactory] : Starting Nest application...

07/05/2025, 6:43:23 PM ERROR [ExceptionHandler] : MeeloException [Error]: API_KEY or API_KEYS Environment variable is missing

at new ApiKeyService (/app/dist/src/authentication/api_key.service.js:21:19)

at Injector.instantiateClass (/app/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:373:19)

at callback (/app/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:65:45)

at async Injector.resolveConstructorParams (/app/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:145:24)

at async Injector.loadInstance (/app/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:70:13)

at async Injector.loadProvider (/app/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/injector.js:98:9)

at async /app/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/instance-loader.js:56:13

at async Promise.all (index 6)

at async InstanceLoader.createInstancesOfProviders (/app/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/instance-loader.js:55:9)

at async /app/node_modules/@nestjs/core/injector/instance-loader.js:40:13 {

errorStatus: 500

}
Any help is appreciated!

[Arthi-chaud]

Hi,

It looks like the '.env' file is missing some values. Have you set something to the API_KEYS value ? (Don't share it on here, it's supposed to be a secret)