newbie - production vs development

At the risk of asking the obvious, did you rename the env file to .env ?

That was an early issue but now corrected.  And if I remove one of the { as described in the tutorial, I do get the parse error displayed.  The only thing I am missing now is the Codeigniter flame at the bottom right of the introduction page.  Not sure what I have missed here or how to get it to display.

I am using Codeigniter 4.3.6

thanks

mike