Unable to start local install of Ghost without setting WEBHOOK_SECRET environment variable?

Hi there,

ghost start fails with:

Message: Ghost was able to start, but errored during boot with: Cannot use remote webhooks in development. Please restart in production mode or see Ghost Webhooks for developing with Stripe.

However, env WEBHOOK_SECRET=test ghost start works fine.

(Note: I set up stripe back on Ghost 3, and did some testing with stripe webhooks.)

I suspect I’m missing something ridiculously simple. However, from Googling and reading the docs, I haven’t figured out why WEBHOOK_SECRET is required for Ghost to start, or how my config ended up scrambled.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

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It worked for me. Thanks!

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