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@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ Self-hosted Minecraft authentication server with authlib-injector support
 ```sh
 $ export DATABASE_URL="sqlite:yggdrasil.db"
 ```
+1.5 Create .env
+```sh
+echo 'DATABASE_URL="sqlite:yggdrasil.db" >> .env'
+```
 2. Create database (install sqlx cli tool if not already)
 ```sh
 $ sqlx db create