Environment variable set in Apache not recognized by tcl script

[sara2005]

I am having trouble setting a new environment variable in Apache and later reading it from a Tcl script.

Here is what I have done:
1) Set new environment variable in Apache start script (apachectl) in the /path/to/apache/bin folder
export STAGING="staging"

2) Start Apache server

3) Read all environment variables and print to screen using a Tcl script:

#!/path/to/tclsh
#
set host $env(SERVER_NAME) <-------- this works
set webstg $env(STAGING)   <-------- this doesn't!!!

puts "Content-Type:   text/html\n\n"
puts "Hello world!!!<br \>"

puts "host is $host <br \>"
puts "region is $webstg <br \>"

I am not able to figure out why the new environment variable I introduced in Apache settings is not picked-up by Tcl script. Greatly appreciate any help to resolve this. Please note that the same approach works in PHP scripting.

Thanks,
Saravan

 

[feherke]

Hi

Not all environment craps are passed to CGI script. That could be a security issue.

Use the [tt]PassEnv[/tt] directive to explicitly allow passing your environment forward :

PassEnv STAGING

Feherke.
[link feherke.github.com/]

http://feherke.github.com/

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[sara2005]

Feherke, Thanks a lot. I have it working now.

regards,
Saravan