Environment affecting the configuration files in CLI mode

Using 'system' is fine - the files are in it's separate folder, so updating CI itself won't be an issue.

If you really must keep it somewhere else, you need to adjust following line in index.php example:

PHP Code:

require_once BASEPATH.'dotenv/autoloader.php'; 


In this context BASEPATH is 'system/', so if you want to put your dotenv files somewhere else, you need to update paths for require_once accordingly.