Lesson 7 : one or many errors in config file while deploying on rinkbey

[yash-2138]

Error in config file while deploying on testnet rinkbey

it says "* Invalid account: #0 for network: rinkbey - private key too short, expected 32 bytes"

my config file

const { default: Ethers } = require("@typechain/ethers-v5")

require("@nomicfoundation/hardhat-toolbox")
require("hardhat-deploy")

const RINKBEY_RPC_URL = process.env.RINKBEY_RPC_URL
const PRIVATE_KEY = process.env.PRIVATE_KEY
const COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY = process.env.COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY
const ETHERSCAN_API_KEY = process.nextTick.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY
module.exports = {
    // solidity: "0.8.8",
    solidity: {
        compilers:[{version: "0.8.8"},{version: "0.6.6"}],
    },
    defaultNetwork: "hardhat",
    networks: {
        rinkbey: {
            url: "RINKBEY_RPC_URL",
            accounts: [PRIVATE_KEY],
            chainId: 4,
            blockConfirmations: 6,
        },
    },
    gasReporter: {
        enabled: false,
        outputFile: "gas-report.txt",
        noColors: true,
        currency: "USD",
        coinmarketcap: COINMARKETCAP_API_KEY,
        token: "MATIC",
    },
    etherscan:{
        apiKey: ETHERSCAN_API_KEY
    },
    namedAccounts: {
        deployer: {
          default: 0, //this says that by default the 0th account is deployer
        },
        player: {
            default: 1,
        }
    },
}

[alymurtazamemon]

@yash-2138 Make sure you have env dependency installed and you are missing this inside the hardhat.config.js file require("dotenv").config();. And also make sure that variable names inside .env file and all other places are same.

[yash-2138]

@alymurtazamemon require("dotenv").config(); add this but it is saying that Cannot fund module "dotenv"

[othaime-en]

run yarn add --dev dotenv

[yash-2138]

Thanks @alymurtazamemon and @othaime-en , you guys are very helpful.

[othaime-en]

All that @alymurtazamemon has said above plus make sure you use process.env.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY when getting the api key not process.nextTick.ETHERSCAN_API_KEY