diff --git a/apps/daedalus_client/.env b/apps/daedalus_client/.env.example
similarity index 100%
rename from apps/daedalus_client/.env
rename to apps/daedalus_client/.env.example
diff --git a/apps/docs/src/content/docs/contributing/labrinth.md b/apps/docs/src/content/docs/contributing/labrinth.md
index 309e5d1a4..16a2e77b0 100644
--- a/apps/docs/src/content/docs/contributing/labrinth.md
+++ b/apps/docs/src/content/docs/contributing/labrinth.md
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ This project is part of our [monorepo](https://github.com/modrinth/code). You ca
 
 [labrinth] is the Rust-based backend serving Modrinth's API with the help of the [Actix](https://actix.rs) framework. To get started with a labrinth instance, install docker, docker-compose (which comes with Docker), and [Rust]. The initial startup can be done simply with the command `docker-compose up`, or with `docker compose up` (Compose V2 and later). That will deploy a PostgreSQL database on port 5432 and a MeiliSearch instance on port 7700. To run the API itself, you'll need to use the `cargo run` command, this will deploy the API on port 8000.
 
-Now, you'll have to install the sqlx CLI, which can be done with cargo:
+To get a basic configuration, copy the `.env.example` file to `.env`. Now, you'll have to install the sqlx CLI, which can be done with cargo:
 
 ```bash
 cargo install --git https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx sqlx-cli --no-default-features --features postgres,rustls
diff --git a/apps/labrinth/.env b/apps/labrinth/.env.example
similarity index 100%
rename from apps/labrinth/.env
rename to apps/labrinth/.env.example
diff --git a/packages/app-lib/.env.example b/packages/app-lib/.env.example
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e648f5b56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/app-lib/.env.example
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+# SQLite database file location
+DATABASE_URL=sqlite:///tmp/Modrinth/code/packages/app-lib/.sqlx/generated/state.db