`main.go` only ever loaded `.env`; the `APP_ENV` switch described in
`.env.local` / `.env.production` did not exist, and a missing variable
surfaced one restart at a time as a log.Fatalf inside db.Connect.
config.Load now picks `.env.<APP_ENV>` (default local) then `.env`, with
real environment winning, reads every setting into one typed Config and
reports everything missing in one message. Production insists on a POS
signing secret; local warns when DB_HOST is not a local address. db,
redis and the image store take the Config instead of reading env
themselves.
Also:
- livehub read MQTT_USERNAME while everything else uses MQTT_USER, so the
console stream connected to the broker unauthenticated. Both accepted.
- .dockerignore: `COPY . .` was baking .env.production into the image.
Dockerfile sets APP_ENV=production.
- Drop utils/config.go (dead viper loader) and create_table.go (unused,
hardcoded production DSN); go mod tidy removes viper.
- .env.example lists every variable the code reads; docs/ENVIRONMENT.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
