Your app can't access custom env vars because they aren't set in Railway's Environment tab. Go to Railway → Project → Variables → add ZP_API_KEY, then redeploy. .env files don’t work in production. Let me know if you need help with fallback logging.

Thanks for your reply.

1.RAILWAY_PROJECT_ID:ea4ca8cc-1ad1-4ad3-961d-4cdf0606c8f7

2.Here is the Deploy logs:

ou reached the start of the range → May 31, 2025 2:48 PM

May 31 14:49:17

Starting Container

May 31 14:50:54

2025-05-31 06:49:17,744 - SecureImageProxy - INFO - Server environment, loading environment variables from Railway

May 31 14:50:54

2025-05-31 06:49:17,745 - SecureImageProxy - INFO - RAILWAY_PROJECT_ID: ea4ca8cc-1ad1-4ad3-961d-4cdf0606c8f7

May 31 14:50:54

2025-05-31 06:49:17,745 - SecureImageProxy - INFO - All environment variables: {'RAILWAY_BETA_ENABLE_RUNTIME_V2': '1', 'RAILWAY_GIT_BRANCH': 'main', 'PYTHONUNBUFFERED': '1', 'RAILWAY_SNAPSHOT_ID': '59f39d55-9963-4ea3-9500-a36274ec0cb2', 'NIXPKGS_ALLOW_UNFREE': '1', 'HOSTNAME': '53826efec3e1', 'PYTHONHASHSEED': 'random', 'NIXPKGS_ALLOW_BROKEN': '1', 'RAILWAY_PROJECT_NAME': 'zoological-magic', 'NIXPACKS_PATH': '/opt/venv/bin:', '__ETC_PROFILE_NIX_SOURCED': '1', 'ENV': '/etc/profile', 'PWD': '/app', 'NIX_PROFILES': '/nix/var/nix/profiles/default /root/.nix-profile', 'RAILWAY_REPLICA_ID': '2711b5dc-d052-4830-8b18-ed2771bde846', 'RAILWAY_GIT_COMMIT_SHA': '6960ccb99ff805ed243b32034859cf939cc8725b', 'PORT': '8080', 'NIX_PATH': '/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels', 'RAILWAY_GIT_COMMIT_MESSAGE': '全英版试试', 'RAILWAY_ENVIRONMENT_NAME': 'production', 'container': 'podman', 'HOME': '/root', 'RAILWAY_GIT_REPO_OWNER': 'Dragontxl', 'GIT_SSL_CAINFO': '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt', 'NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE': '/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt', 'RAILWAY_GIT_REPO_NAME': 'ttp', 'RAILWAY_PRIVATE_DOMAIN': 'ttp.railway.internal', 'RAILWAY_PROJECT_ID': 'ea4ca8cc-1ad1-4ad3-961d-4cdf0606c8f7', 'PIP_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT': '100', 'NIXPACKS_METADATA': 'python', 'BUILDKIT_DOCKERFILE_CHECK': 'skip=all', 'RAILWAY_GIT_AUTHOR': 'Dragontxl', 'USER': 'root', 'PIP_DISABLE_PIP_VERSION_CHECK': '1', 'LIBRARY_PATH': '~/.nix-profile/lib:', 'RAILWAY_DEPLOYMENT_ID': 'adc363a2-c681-4fc7-b3e4-9091928ff3da', 'PYTHONFAULTHANDLER': '1', 'RAILWAY_SERVICE_NAME': 'ttp', 'SHLVL': '0', 'NIXPKGS_ALLOW_INSECURE': '1', 'RAILWAY_ENVIRONMENT': 'production', 'PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE': '1', 'RAILWAY_SERVICE_ID': '80452941-df1e-42cd-a151-9f854882c1e9', 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH': '/nix/store/s94fwp43xhzkvw8l8nqslskib99yifzi-gcc-13.3.0-lib/lib:/nix/store/ncjma3lhr1sf6mqaczl9mfhjmp6ix58w-zlib-1.3.1/lib:/usr/lib', 'QTDIR': '~/.nix-profile:', 'RAILWAY_ENVIRONMENT_ID': '8beaf82c-ec23-4f12-a13d-0a31f7d5b509', 'XDG_DATA_DIRS': '/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/root/.nix-profile/share:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share:/root/.nix-profile/share:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/share', 'PATH': '/opt/venv/bin:/opt/venv/bin::/root/.nix-profile/bin:/root/.nix-profile/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/bin:/nix/var/nix/profiles/default/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin', 'RAILWAY_REPLICA_REGION': 'asia-southeast1-eqsg3a', 'PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR': '1', 'CPATH': '~/.nix-profile/include:', '_': '/opt/venv/bin/python', 'LC_CTYPE': 'C.UTF-8'}

May 31 14:50:54

2025-05-31 06:49:17,745 - SecureImageProxy - ERROR - Zhipu API key not set! Please configure ZP_API_KEY in Railway environment variables

May 31 14:50:54

Traceback (most recent call last):

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File "/app/main.py", line 786, in <module>

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raise RuntimeError('Zhipu API key not configured')

May 31 14:50:54

RuntimeError: Zhipu API key not configured

3. codes in if__name__==main:

   if __name__ == '__main__':
       # Initialize logging
       logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format='%(asctime)s - %(name)s - %(levelname)s - %(message)s')
       logger = logging.getLogger('SecureImageProxy')
   
       # Load environment variables
       if not os.environ.get('RAILWAY_PROJECT_ID'):
           load_dotenv()
           logger.info('Non-server environment, loading environment variables from local .env file')
       else:
           logger.info('Server environment, loading environment variables from Railway')
           logger.info('RAILWAY_PROJECT_ID: %s', os.environ.get('RAILWAY_PROJECT_ID'))
           logger.info('All environment variables: %s', {k: '***' if 'KEY' in k else v for k, v in os.environ.items()})
   
       # Check ZP_API_KEY
       api_key = os.environ.get('ZP_API_KEY')
       if not api_key:
           logger.error('Zhipu API key not set! Please configure ZP_API_KEY in Railway environment variables')
           raise RuntimeError('Zhipu API key not configured')
   4. you can find shotcut for Variables in attached.    
   
   Looking forward to your reply. Many Thanks.

open your railway canvas

Click on the service that has the code

Go to the “variables” tab

Send a screenshot

If it helps:

打开你的 Railway 画布

点击包含代码的服务

进入 “variables（变量）” 标签页

发送截图

Sorry , but I cant find canvas button. 找不到canvas 按钮。

I have del and add for many times. thanks all the same.

Can you share a screenshot if possible

Is this one OK? thanks.

Yes, click on "Deploy"

Then wait for the redeploy and try again

OK ,done what's next?

Click on "Deploy"

it does work! Thanks for your help!!