diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8763a83..b7c2e26 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ A recipe for deploying a SvelteKit app via Docker Compose.
 
 This project owes a lot to [this reference](https://medium.com/@loic.joachim/dockerize-sveltekit-with-node-adapter-62c5dc6fc15a).
 
+## To set up your SvelteKit project, ensure that your svelte.config.js file has this line:
+
+    // import adapter from '@sveltejs/adapter-auto';
+    import adapter from '@sveltejs/adapter-node';
+
+and then run
+
+    npm i -D @sveltejs/adapter-node
+    npm i dotenv
+
 ## To build a new image
 
     docker-compose build
diff --git a/env.sample b/env.sample
index 26e33dc..67aa57c 100644
--- a/env.sample
+++ b/env.sample
@@ -1 +1,4 @@
-# copy this to .env to enable...
+# copy this file to .env to enable...
+
+PORT=5173 # or whatever port you want for your reverse proxy
+HOST=127.0.0.1 # or 0.0.0.0 to listen on all interfaces