diff --git a/.env b/.env.example
similarity index 86%
rename from .env
rename to .env.example
index 262f2fd..97435fb 100644
--- a/.env
+++ b/.env.example
@@ -107,6 +107,11 @@ APP_URL=https://${SEAT_DOMAIN}
 
 APP_KEY=insecure
 
+# Application default locale
+# If you need to change the default locale of the server for notifications you need to put the locale code here
+# e.g. fr, en, ru, etc.
+APP_LOCALE=en
+
 # App Environment
 APP_ENV=local
 
@@ -165,3 +170,15 @@ EVE_CALLBACK_URL=${APP_URL}/auth/eve/callback
 
 #SEAT_PLUGINS=vendor1/package
 #SEAT_PLUGINS=vendor1/package,vendor2/package
+
+# The type of driver that eseye should use for the cache
+# available values are file, redis
+ESEYE_CACHE_DRIVER=file
+
+# When using the file driver, this is the name of the folder in seat/storage that will store the cache files
+ESEYE_CACHE_STORAGE_PATH=eseye
+
+# When using the redis driver, this is the name of the redis connection. If using 'cache', it will reuse the existing
+# redis cache configuration found in seat/config/cache.php. It must be a configured connection
+ESEYE_CACHE_CONNECTION=cache
+ESEYE_CACHE_LOCK_CONNECTION=default
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c49bd7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+.env
diff --git a/bootstrap.sh b/bootstrap.sh
index eeb8695..6342114 100755
--- a/bootstrap.sh
+++ b/bootstrap.sh
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eveseat/seat-docker/$SEAT_GITHUB_BRANC
 curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eveseat/seat-docker/$SEAT_GITHUB_BRANCH/docker-compose.mariadb.yml -o $SEAT_DOCKER_INSTALL/docker-compose.mariadb.yml
 curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eveseat/seat-docker/$SEAT_GITHUB_BRANCH/docker-compose.traefik.yml -o $SEAT_DOCKER_INSTALL/docker-compose.traefik.yml
 curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eveseat/seat-docker/$SEAT_GITHUB_BRANCH/docker-compose.proxy.yml -o $SEAT_DOCKER_INSTALL/docker-compose.proxy.yml
-curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eveseat/seat-docker/$SEAT_GITHUB_BRANCH/.env -o $SEAT_DOCKER_INSTALL/.env
+curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eveseat/seat-docker/$SEAT_GITHUB_BRANCH/.env.example -o $SEAT_DOCKER_INSTALL/.env
 
 echo "Generating a random database password and writing it to the .env file."
 sed -i -- 's/DB_PASSWORD=i_should_be_changed/DB_PASSWORD='$(head /dev/urandom | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c22 ; echo '')'/g' .env