Setting a path in apache

[skiflyer]

I'm using PHP, and trying to run an external program... for this to work properly,

/home/username/program/bin

needs to be in the path for the executor of the program.

I've tried

SetEnv PATH /home/username/program/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin

but it doesn't take... it shows up the same as if I didn't have the SetEnv directive at all.

If I change PATH to another variable name, it works like a charm... but that obviouslly doesn't help me any. Is this a permissions thing? Any advice?

 

[skiflyer]

Ok, so I've dug around the net quite a bit and come to realize the SetEnv directive is incapable of setting PATH or TZ... some feature/bug that's apparently been around for 8 years.

So does anyone know another way to solve my problem?

 

[skiflyer]

So, if I set my path as root then stop/start using apachectl this works! Finally!

However, this obviouslly won't help me after a reboot and such .

So I've been led to believe I can populate the envvars file with PATH=.... and that will solve that problem.

Only thing is, I don't have an envvars file, and I can't quite figure out where I'd place one.

RUnning Debian Sarge, Apache 1.3.33 and everything was installed with apt-get

Anyone know?

 

[warpzero]

Hi,
what you could do is modify the "apachectl" script to include the path file.

ie: vi /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl

export PATH=$PATH:/somepath/:

This way everytime you stop/start the webserver the PATH variable will contain the path you are looking for.

WarpZero Technologies

http://www.warpzero.com/

 

[skiflyer]

Looks like we came to the solution at nearly the same time... thank you.

For details in case anyone with the same issue comes across this... on the particular setup I was describing (Debian sarge) the place to make the change is actually in

/etc/init.d/apache

Which is just a wrapper script for apachectl which is used to set environment variables and the like.