Jeff wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Mad Unix <madunix@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can I do the following
> >
> > vi /etc/sysconfig/httpd
> >
> > # Configuration file for the httpd service.
> >
> > #
> > # The default processing model (MPM) is the process-based
> > # 'prefork' model.  A thread-based model, 'worker', is also
> > # available, but does not work with some modules (such as PHP).
> > # The service must be stopped before changing this variable.
> > #
> > #HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd.worker
> >
> > #
> > # To pass additional options (for instance, -D definitions) to the
> > # httpd binary at startup, set OPTIONS here.
> > #
> > #OPTIONS=
> >
> > #
> > # By default, the httpd process is started in the C locale; to
> > # change the locale in which the server runs, the HTTPD_LANG
> > # variable can be set.
> > #
> > #HTTPD_LANG=C
> > ORACLE_BASE=/u01/oracle
> > ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/10g
> > ORACLE_SID=king
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH_32=$ORACLE_HOME/lib32
> > PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
> > NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AR8MSWIN1256; export NLS_LANG
> > NLS_DATE_FORMAT=dd-mm-yyyy ; export NLS_DATE_FORMAT
> > export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH_32
> > PATH
> > ~
> <snip>
>
> Yes, that is the right way. But one point that was not clearly made is
> that you probably ALSO need to add to your apache configuration:
>
> PassEnv ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME [etc.]
>
> This make the values available to PHP.

Or you could add those environment variables in /etc/profile.d, create
a file called oracle.sh and put those environment variables there, then
in /etc/httpd/conf.d create a file called oracle, and add the PassEnv
directives there.

At least this way the environment variables are available to all
local processes and users.

-Ross

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