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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Deployment failure due to invalid Environment Variable name

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Jamilly Macedo

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Issue

  • The deployment process failed with the following error message:
Some error has happened during the build. Try again. [{"message":"Bad Request","status":400,"errors":[{"reason":"deployError","context":{"message":"Invalid value: XXX, a valid environment variable name must consist of alphabetic characters, digits, '_', '-', or '.', and must not start with a digit. Service creation failed for the undefined service. Halting further dependent deployments.","deploymentUid":"chkirxocarraokxvaw"}}]}].

Environment

  • Liferay PaaS

Resolution

  • The error message indicates that there is an issue with an environment variable having invalid characters. To resolve this issue, fix the problematic environment variable and reattempt the deployment.

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