Unable to login to localhost after migrating to 1.6 & can't change _APP_CONSOLE_WHITELIST_ROOT

I migrated from v1.5(8 I think) to v1.6 and I can't login to the local Appwrite server. In Docker Windows I click Containers, then the triple dots on appwrite container and click Edit in VS Code, then copy and paste the .env (which I updated to set _APP_CONSOLE_WHITELIST_ROOT=disabled) from the appwrite docker folder that docker-compose.yml' was in (which also did not work when I migrated so I downloaded that from the Git repo master branch but that doesn't seem to be the issue), then reset the container. Seems like this should work. What am I doing wrong here?