In a self-managed RHOAI 2.8 env. 

follow on to this thread. 

https://redhat-internal.slack.com/archives/C05NXTEHLGY/p1711649730486569 

I created 2 workbenches using the same image. 

only difference is that in one (with) I defined the Env variable the way the doc tells me I need to. 

Doc: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_openshift_ai_self-managed/2.8/html/getting_started_with_red_hat_openshift_ai_self-managed/creating-a-project-workbench_get-started 

says: 

In the other, (without) I did not define any env variable. 

Results:

Without the variable, everything works. 

But in the other workbench, with the variable: