Thanks for the info Joshua.
I was just curious to know if it was possible to set
variables in httpd.conf . Probably won't need to
use such a feature at the moment.
Keith
In theory, theory and practice are the same;
In practice they are not.
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006, Joshua Slive wrote:
> To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: Joshua Slive <joshua@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] Using environment variable in httpd.conf
>
> On 1/19/06, httpd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx <httpd2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Well Tom, I'm using apache 2.0.50 under SuSE 9.2 pro and
> > just added the following to httpd.conf, after my LoadModule statements:
> >
> > SetEnv ErrLogPath /var/log/apache2/error_log
> > ErrorLog ${ErrLogPath}
> > LogLevel debug
> >
> > All this does for my setup is create an error_log file under
> > /srv/www/ called ${ErrLogPath}.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
> The undocumented env-variable-in-config-file feature looks at
> variables in the server environment at time of startup. SetEnv
> doesn't actually make real environment variables until a cgi script is
> launched. See:
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/env.html
>
> What you want sounds more like the features provided by mod_macro.
> See http://modules.apache.org/.
>
> But the standard advice in cases like this is: httpd.conf is not a
> programming language, it is a config file. If you need more advanced
> features, then use your favorite preprocess (m4, etc) to generate your
> config files.
>
> Joshua.
>
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