diff --git a/.env b/.env
index 875ceb1..7e0076d 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-CONFIG_NAME='This is development';
+CONFIG_NAME='This is NOT development. It is not how envrionment works in CodeIgniter!'
 CONTAINER_PORT=8094
 UID=1000
 
diff --git a/.env.live b/.env.live
index 1c5e89e..587e8f1 100644
--- a/.env.live
+++ b/.env.live
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-CONFIG_NAME='This is live';
+CONFIG_NAME='This is live'
 CONTAINER_PORT=8094
 UID=1000
+CI_ENVIRONMENT=production
 
 SERVER_PATH = production
 
diff --git a/app/Config/Boot/production.php b/app/Config/Boot/production.php
index 1822cf5..679b341 100644
--- a/app/Config/Boot/production.php
+++ b/app/Config/Boot/production.php
@@ -23,3 +23,5 @@ ini_set('display_errors', '0');
  | release of the framework.
  */
 defined('CI_DEBUG') || define('CI_DEBUG', false);
+
+$_ENV['CONFIG_NAME']='<h1>I beleive you are doing CI envrionment handling wrong. You should define CI_ENVIRONMENT environment variable and utilize the respective app/Config/Boot/...php file</h1><br/>';
diff --git a/app/Controllers/Home.php b/app/Controllers/Home.php
index 7cc3f29..892beb3 100644
--- a/app/Controllers/Home.php
+++ b/app/Controllers/Home.php
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ class Home extends BaseController
 
     public function what_env(): string
     {
-        $curr_env = $_ENV['CONFIG_NAME'];
-        echo $curr_env;
+        $curr_env = env('CONFIG_NAME','undefined?');
+        echo env('CI_ENVIRONMENT');
         return $curr_env;
     }
     public function provision(): string
diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index 347d9ca..93a5ee3 100755
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ services:
       - CI_ENVIRONMENT=development
       - APACHE_RUN_USER=#${UID}
       - APACHE_RUN_GROUP=#${UID}
-      #- CI_ENV
+      - CI_ENVIRONMENT=${CI_ENVIRONMENT:-development}
       - CI_CONFIG
     restart: unless-stopped
     image: registry.chiefsoft.net/mermsprovision:latest
diff --git a/docker/apache/000-default.conf b/docker/apache/000-default.conf
index 613ea1f..8d40f33 100644
--- a/docker/apache/000-default.conf
+++ b/docker/apache/000-default.conf
@@ -8,4 +8,8 @@
     AllowOverride All
     Require all granted
   </Directory>
-</VirtualHost>
\ No newline at end of file
+
+  # pass system env CI_ENVIRONMENT to Apache
+  PassEnv CI_ENVIRONMENT
+
+</VirtualHost>
diff --git a/docker/apache/Dockerfile b/docker/apache/Dockerfile
index 40867de..c856b9c 100644
--- a/docker/apache/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/apache/Dockerfile
@@ -1,31 +1,39 @@
 # Use an official PHP runtime as a base image
 FROM php:8.1-apache
 
+# Build args
+ARG CI_ENVIRONMENT
+
+ENV CI_ENVIRONMENT=$CI_ENVIRONMENT
+
 RUN echo "ServerName localhost" >> /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
 #RUN apt-get update
 
+#RUN apt-get update && apt-get install --yes --force-yes libc-client-dev libkrb5-dev
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-cache search libc-client
 RUN apt-get update && \
     apt-get install --yes --force-yes \
     cron g++ gettext libicu-dev openssl \
-    libc-client-dev libkrb5-dev  \
+    libkrb5-dev  \
     libxml2-dev libfreetype6-dev \
     libgd-dev libmcrypt-dev bzip2 \
     libbz2-dev libtidy-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \
     libz-dev libmemcached-dev libxslt-dev git-core libpq-dev \
-    libzip4 libzip-dev libwebp-dev
-
+    libzip5 libzip-dev libwebp-dev
+# libc-client-dev => libc-client2007e-dev
 
 # PHP Configuration
 RUN docker-php-ext-install bcmath bz2 calendar  dba exif gettext iconv intl  soap tidy xsl zip&&\
     docker-php-ext-install mysqli pgsql pdo pdo_mysql pdo_pgsql  &&\
     docker-php-ext-configure gd --with-freetype --with-jpeg --with-webp &&\
     docker-php-ext-install gd &&\
-    docker-php-ext-configure imap --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl &&\
-    docker-php-ext-install imap &&\
     docker-php-ext-configure hash --with-mhash &&\
     pecl install xdebug && docker-php-ext-enable xdebug &&\
     pecl install mongodb && docker-php-ext-enable mongodb &&\
     pecl install redis && docker-php-ext-enable redis
+# docker-php-ext-configure imap --with-kerberos --with-imap-ssl &&\
+# docker-php-ext-install imap &&\
 
 # 2. set up document root for apache
 COPY docker/apache/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
@@ -56,4 +64,4 @@ RUN mkdir -p /var/www/html/ANSIBLE && \
 
 RUN composer install
 
-EXPOSE 80
\ No newline at end of file
+EXPOSE 80
diff --git a/public/.htaccess b/public/.htaccess
index abac3cb..56d3f7b 100644
--- a/public/.htaccess
+++ b/public/.htaccess
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Disable directory browsing
 Options -Indexes
 
+PassEnv CI_ENVIRONMENT
+
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Rewrite engine
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------