[CentOS] apache env vars - best practices
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 18:11:10 UTC 2009
aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
> I've been setting custom env vars for Apache 1 of 2 ways;
>
> 1 - Changing the passwd file so Apache has a shell and loading a
> custom .bashrc file.
>
> 2 - Using the SetEnv directive in my httpd.conf file.
>
> I'm crazy about neither one as they both have limitations;
>
> 1 - I don't like giving Apache its own shell.
>
> 2 - The SetEnv directive only takes 2 args so if I have a var with
> multiple values like a path, it won't work.
>
> What's the cleanest way to set complex env vars for Apache?
I'm not aware of any exceptions to environment variables being single
key/value strings. The value of a path is a single string as far as the
environment mechanism goes, even if the code that evaluates it splits on
:'s by convention. I don't think there is such a thing as a complex env
var.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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