>Is there a way to dump to screen the apache "environment stuff" to what exactly apache sees? I looked at the man pages for apache2 and apache2ctl searching for 'environment' ... no matches.
There is a printenv CGI script which is usually installed by default but not activated by default. Put it in a cgi directory, run it and you see what the environment variables for an Apache request look like. Don't activate it on a production environment by the way, it's a sample script, it's known to be unsafe.
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