unable to deploy to rinkeby lesson 9

[scott815]

trying to run hh deploy --network rinkeby and getting the following message on this repo
https://github.com/PatrickAlphaC/hardhat-smartcontract-lottery-fcc

Nothing to compile
failed to get chainId, falling back on net_version...
An unexpected error occurred:

ProviderError: Must be authenticated!
    at HttpProvider.request (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/http.ts:78:19)
    at LocalAccountsProvider.request (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/accounts.ts:188:34)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)
    at GanacheGasMultiplierProvider._isGanache (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/gas-providers.ts:317:30)
    at GanacheGasMultiplierProvider.request (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/gas-providers.ts:306:23)
    at ChainIdValidatorProvider._getChainIdFromEthNetVersion (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/chainId.ts:33:17)
    at ChainIdValidatorProvider._getChainId (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/chainId.ts:17:25)
    at ChainIdValidatorProvider.request (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat/src/internal/core/providers/chainId.ts:55:29)
    at DeploymentsManager.getChainId (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat-deploy/src/DeploymentsManager.ts:443:23)
    at DeploymentsManager.loadDeployments (/home/scott/projects/32hourcourse/hh-fc/lottery-contract/node_modules/hardhat-deploy/src/DeploymentsManager.ts:619:17)

[PatrickAlphaC]

Reminder: Please use 3 backticks ``` when formatting code, thanks.

Looks like your API key is probably wrong. Have you seen this thread?

https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/providererror-must-be-authenticated-deploying-to-rinkeby/4618/2

[igrs08]

@scott815 Have you managed to solve this issue? I am also stuck at this.

[Gnome101]

I had this same problem, and I found that I had a spelling discrepancy between my .env file and my hardhat config file. I would recommend console.logging out your RPC URL and seeing if it is returning the correct http url. I would also check on your url to see if it is put in correctly by looking at it on the alchemy website. I wish you luck!