# Local Installation Autotrain Token Issue

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Hi Everyone,  
I am having trouble running autotrain locally. I have done all the setup detailed in [GitHub - huggingface/autotrain-advanced: 🤗 AutoTrain Advanced](https://github.com/huggingface/autotrain-advanced) but when I go to localhost:8080 i get HF\_TOKEN invalid or expired. I have exported the token in my conda session but still it doesn’t seem to work. Is there a doc that I am supposed to edit that I don’t know of? If so, where is this doc as I only see autotrain, autotrain.db, and autotrain.log in the current directory. Thank You!

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I think it has to be set in an environment variable. If it still doesn’t work, it may be a bug.

> <https://github.com/huggingface/autotrain-advanced/issues/578>
>
> \### Prerequisites
> 
> \- \[X\] I have read the \[documentation\](https://hf.co/docs/au…totrain).
> \- \[X\] I have checked other issues for similar problems.
> 
> \### Backend
> 
> Local
> 
> \### Interface Used
> 
> CLI
> 
> \### CLI Command
> 
> autotrain app
> 
> \### UI Screenshots & Parameters
> 
> I have set HF\_TOKEN env variable locally (verified by doing \`echo $HF\_TOKEN\`)
> 
> \### Error Logs
> 
> \`\`\`
> (base) ➜ ~ autotrain app \[24/04/10| 2:34AM\]
> \> ERROR HF\_TOKEN not set
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/Users/dhruvanand/miniforge3/bin/autotrain", line 8, in \<module\>
> sys.exit(main())
> File "/Users/dhruvanand/miniforge3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/autotrain/cli/autotrain.py", line 50, in main
> command.run()
> File "/Users/dhruvanand/miniforge3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/autotrain/cli/run\_app.py", line 51, in run
> from autotrain.app import app
> File "/Users/dhruvanand/miniforge3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/autotrain/app.py", line 38, in \<module\>
> raise ValueError("HF\_TOKEN environment variable is not set")
> ValueError: HF\_TOKEN environment variable is not set
> \`\`\`
> 
> \### Additional Information
> 
> I read through https://github.com/huggingface/autotrain-advanced/issues/279