<p>My guess is your config/db.php has the wrong environment variables.</p>
<p>Craft 4 started prefixing all env vars with <code>CRAFT_</code>.</p>

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2022-05-26T02:33:12.187Z
2022-05-26T02:33:12.187Z
Leevi Graham
<p>After successfully getting my DB setup and installing Craft through the command line, I'm getting a persistent 503 error on even a simple hi.txt file</p>
<p><a href="https://saltandpepper.recipes/hi.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://saltandpepper.recipes/hi.txt</a></p>
<p>On the admin page it loads the raw html, but none of the dependent CSS or javascript seems to be loading. <a href="https://saltandpepper.recipes/admin/install" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://saltandpepper.recipes/admin/install</a> I'v seen other 503 error issues reported here, but none that seem to apply to my situation. I don't know what could be going wrong</p>

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Http 503 — Service Unavailable error after successful craft 4 installation. Can't even load a hi.txt file in web root
# Http 503 — Service Unavailable error after successful craft 4 installation. Can't even load a hi.txt file in web root

(Asked by: username_0 on 2022-05-25)

After successfully getting my DB setup and installing Craft through the command line, I'm getting a persistent 503 error on even a simple hi.txt file

<https://saltandpepper.recipes/hi.txt>

On the admin page it loads the raw html, but none of the dependent CSS or javascript seems to be loading. <https://saltandpepper.recipes/admin/install> I'v seen other 503 error issues reported here, but none that seem to apply to my situation. I don't know what could be going wrong

**Tags:** error, installation


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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2022-05-26. Score: 1

My guess is your config/db.php has the wrong environment variables.

Craft 4 started prefixing all env vars with `CRAFT_`.


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