# Verba Testing **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [February 2, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-testing/1361 "2024-02-02T19:08:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mike\_Hudson](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/mike_hudson/32/355_2.png) [@Mike\_Hudson](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/Mike_Hudson)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-testing/1361/1 "2024-02-02T19:08:06Z")
I’m testing Verba on Codespaces. It installs and runs OK, presenting the GUI in a local browser window. I’ve uploaded a document which it has chunked and vectorised. In “Search” if I type “Hello” the bot answers with an summary of my uploaded document. However, if I ask it anything about the document it doesn’t do anything. Any ideas why? I have not yet set an OpenAI API key. Would that explain why it doesn’t answer, and if so how is it generating the response to “Hello” without connection to a GPT? Also: in the example provided in the documentation for the “.env” file, you’ve set OPENAI\_BASE\_URL to [http://0.0.0.0:8000](http://0.0.0.0:8000) is that correct for testing in codespaces? ---
**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/verba-testing/1361/2 "2024-02-05T23:26:50Z")
Hi @Mike_Hudson ! I will need to try Verba also with codespaces 😆 The idea for the OPENAI\_BASE\_URL is, as stated: You can also add a `OPENAI_BASE_URL` to use proxies such as LiteLLM ([GitHub - BerriAI/litellm: Call all LLM APIs using the OpenAI format. Use Bedrock, Azure, OpenAI, Cohere, Anthropic, Ollama, Sagemaker, HuggingFace, Replicate (100+ LLMs)](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm)) What were the steps you did to run in codespaces? Thanks!