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## Admin/Bot config vs User/Repository config for Self-hosted users
"AdminBot config" refers to the config which the Renovate Bot administrator provides at bot startup, e.g. using environment variables, CLI parameters, or the `config.js` configuration file.
"Admin/Bot config" refers to the config which the Renovate Bot administrator provides at bot startup, e.g. using environment variables, CLI parameters, or the `config.js` configuration file.
User/Repository config refers to the in-repository config file which defaults to `renovate.json` but has a large number of alternative filenames supported.
If there is a need to supply custom rules for certain repository, it can still be done using the `config.js` file and the `repositories` array.
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- Use the resulting HTML encrypt page to encrypt secrets for your app before adding them to user/repository config
- Configure the app to run with `privateKey` set to the private key you generated above
Note: Encrypted values can't be used in the "Admin/Bot config".
### hostRules configuration using environment variables
Self-hosted users can use environment variables to configure the most common types of `hostRules` for authentication.