# DISCOURSE\_DB\_PASSWORD can not start with \`#\`

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-db-password-can-not-start-with/76409>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [December 19, 2017, 9:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-db-password-can-not-start-with/76409 "2017-12-19T09:16:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2017, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-db-password-can-not-start-with/76409/5 "2017-12-20T05:56:37Z")

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OK, after more than a little faffing around (there’s a lot of devilish detail behind “add the DB related config”), I got a repro, and have now committed [FIX: Quote all strings in discourse.conf · discourse/discourse\_docker@087e110 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/commit/087e11016524a613ee28b9b97a260971f939994f), which should solve this problem.

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