hi there I m working on deploying prefect on a server in the

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hi there I m working on deploying prefect on a server in the short term I m just wanting to run a flow as a script rather than run prefect server that works fine locally but for some reason on the server I keep getting errors because it s expecting an API key to prefect cloud is there a configuration setting I m missing

Chris Goddard · Answer

I m using the slack notifier state handler which references prefect Client to get a flow ID s url this is what s causing the error get cloud url method fails because it s trying to connect to Prefect Cloud

Zachary Hughes · Answer

Hi < Chris Goddard> have you run `prefect backend server`

Chris Goddard · Answer

no I ll try I think because I ve run prefect server locally my local configuration is different

Chris Goddard · Answer

is there a way to configure that without running that command I m running the script and prefect within a docker container

Zachary Hughes · Answer

`backend` is stored in `config toml` so you should be able to overwrite that with a local config if you d like

Chris Goddard · Answer

perfect

Chris Goddard · Answer

yup that worked

Zachary Hughes · Answer

Glad to hear it

Chris Goddard · Answer

could that be set with an environment variable i e `PREFECT CONFIG BACKEND`

Chris Goddard · Answer

would it be `PREFECT CONFIG BACKEND= server `

Zachary Hughes · Answer

That would do the trick as well Env vars set like that can override the values defined in `config toml` In this case I think it d be `PREFECT BACKEND`