Wordpress Bedrock framework installation white screen of death ("Dotenv values containing spaces must be surrounded by quotes")

Question

Problem occurred installing the Wordpress Bedrock framework per its documentation here.

PHP error: "Dotenv values containing spaces must be surrounded by quotes" (or just a "Whitescreen of death" if errors are off/going to logs in php.ini).

Answer 1

Bedrock's .env file needed quotation marks surrounding the values. So, instead of:

AUTH_KEY=generateme
SECURE_AUTH_KEY=generateme
...

It needed:

AUTH_KEY="generateme"
SECURE_AUTH_KEY="generateme"
...

Even though the package https://github.com/vlucas/phpdotenv can use either. This might be due to the keys that were generated (special characters), or perhaps it just needed the quotes...