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Environment Variables
Environment variables are configurable for Directus Enterprise Cloud projects via our Customer Success team. You can also set environment variables in self-hosted projects.

Variable	Description	Default Value
`EXTENSIONS_PATH`¹	Path to your local extensions directory, or subdirectory within the configured storage location when `EXTENSIONS_LOCATION` is set.	`./extensions`
`EXTENSIONS_MUST_LOAD`	Exit the server when any API extension fails to load.	`false`
`EXTENSIONS_AUTO_RELOAD`^{2, 3}	Automatically reload extensions when they have changed.	`false`
`EXTENSIONS_CACHE_TTL`⁴	How long custom app Extensions get cached by browsers.
`EXTENSIONS_LOCATION`^{5, 6}	Key of the configured storage locations to load extensions from a specific storage location.
`EXTENSIONS_LIMIT`	Maximum number of extensions you allow to be installed through the Marketplace.

¹ When EXTENSIONS_LOCATION is set, this defines the path inside the selected storage location where extensions reside.

² EXTENSIONS_AUTO_RELOAD will not work when the EXTENSIONS_LOCATION environment variable is set.

³ EXTENSIONS_AUTO_RELOAD will likely not work on Windows machines without also setting the CHOKIDAR_USEPOLLING environment variable to true.

⁴ The EXTENSIONS_CACHE_TTL environment variable controls how long app extensions are cached by browsers. By default, extensions are not cached.

⁵ By default extensions are loaded from the local file system. EXTENSIONS_LOCATION can be used to load extensions from a storage location instead.

⁶ The value of EXTENSIONS_LOCATION must correspond to a key defined in your STORAGE_LOCATIONS environment variable.

Marketplace

Variable	Description	Default Value
`MARKETPLACE_TRUST`	One of `sandbox`, `all`	`sandbox`
`MARKETPLACE_REGISTRY`	The registry to use for the Directus Marketplace.	`https://registry.directus.io`

Sandbox
By default, the Directus Marketplace will allow installation of all App extension types and only API extension types that use our secure sandbox.

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