Accessing Operating System Environment Variables in Apache (Fedora)

I was facing the problem of accessing the Operating System Environment Variables in Apache. After searching a lot, I got to know that there are environment variables in apache too. Although these variables are referred to as environment variables, they are not the same as the environment variables controlled by the underlying operating system. Instead, these variables are stored and manipulated in an internal Apache structure.

For setting the operating system environment variables to be used by apache, we will export these variables to the apache server when it starts. The procedure is as follows :

0. Switch to root.

1. Open /etc/init.d/httpd in vim

vim /etc/init.d/httpd

2. You will find following lines

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

Open /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions in vim

vim /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

3. You will find following lines

# Set up a default search path.
PATH="/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin"
export PATH

Now append whatever environment variables you want to set and accessed by apache.

VAR="/path/to/var"

export VAR

For example,

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/cuda/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

You could have added these lines anywhere in the file.

4. Save the file and restart the apache server.

/etc/init.d/httpd restart

Hope it helps. I will add the fix for Ubuntu soon.

SVN Proxy Settings

Subversion (SVN) is a version control system used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.

If you are behind a proxy you will have to set the proxy before using svn.

The procedure for the same goes as follows :

1. Open "servers" file located in ".subversion" directory in your home directory.

vi ~/.subversion/servers

2. You will find following lines of code located in the file

[global]
# http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
# http-proxy-host = defaultproxy.whatever.com
# http-proxy-port = 7000
# http-proxy-username = defaultusername
# http-proxy-password = defaultpassword

Set the appropriate values and remove the '#' from the beginning. Make sure you don't leave any whitespaces at the front of the lines being edited.

After editing the code will look like

[global]
http-proxy-exceptions = *.exception.com, www.internal-site.org
http-proxy-host = defaultproxy.whatever.com
http-proxy-port = 7000
http-proxy-username = username
http-proxy-password = password

3. Save the file and exit.

You are now ready to use svn.