Hello. I am trying to install a large system on a web server I don't run,
and the people who do have screwed up the setting of $SCRIPT_NAME
horribly. Unfortunately SCRIPT_NAME is used in many places throughout the
system I am trying to install. I thought I could set it in .htaccess with
mod_rewrite, but it appears that the web host prohibits this (results in
403, and yes, I did try +FollowSymLinks).

Is there any other way of setting an environment variable in .htaccess?

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Peter Scott
http://www.perlmedic.com/
http://www.perldebugged.com/

[ Peter Scott ]

> Hello. I am trying to install a large system on a web server I don't
> run, and the people who do have screwed up the setting of
> $SCRIPT_NAME horribly. Unfortunately SCRIPT_NAME is used in many
> places throughout the system I am trying to install. I thought I
> could set it in .htaccess with mod_rewrite, but it appears that the
> web host prohibits this (results in 403, and yes, I did try
> +FollowSymLinks).
>
> Is there any other way of setting an environment variable in
> .htaccess?

You don't specify which Apache-version you run, but have a look at the
docs:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/env.html

Note the context of the directives (e.g. 'SetEnv' can be used in a
..htaccess).

If you use another version of Apache, see its documentation.


Rgds,
Kenneth Svee

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:17:28 +0200, Kenneth Svee wrote:
>> Is there any other way of setting an environment variable in .htaccess?
>
> You don't specify which Apache-version you run, but have a look at the
> docs:
>
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/env.html
>
> Note the context of the directives (e.g. 'SetEnv' can be used in a
> .htaccess).
>
> If you use another version of Apache, see its documentation.

Thanks. I tried to make this work on my own web server first, which is
"Apache/2.2.0 (Fedora)" and couldn't get it to work. I turned selinux off
first (setenforce 0) to be on the safe side and restarted Apache. I have
a .htaccess in my ~/public-html/ containing:

Options ExecCGI
SetEnv FOO bar

and in my httpd.conf I have:

<Directory "/home/*/public_html">
AllowOverride FileInfo Options
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

But a CGI in the same directory that lists all environment variables
doesn't show FOO. I tried putting the SetEnv in the global config block
above and that didn't . Nothing in the error_log. mod_env is loaded.
I tried SetEnvIf as well and it didn't work. I also tried AllowOverride
All. I also tried UnSetEnv SERVER_SOFTWARE and that didn't work
(although I think I'm not supposed to be able to unset that one).

I figure if I can't make this work on my own system first I won't know
what I'm doing on the target system. What have I missed?

--
Peter Scott
http://www.perlmedic.com/
http://www.perldebugged.com/