Questions tagged [setenv]
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Questions about putenv() and setenv()
I have been thinking a little about environment variables and have a few questions/observations.
putenv(char *string);
This call seems fatally flawed. Because it doesn't copy the passed string you can't call it with a local and there is no…

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How to use the setEnv variable in apache?
I need to set my apache environment to 'foobar'
I know I need to set in in my vhost, but what should I type there and where?

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How to import all the environment variables in tox
I'm using following in setenv to import the environment variable from where I run, but is there a way to import all the variables so that I don't really need to import one by one.
e.g:
{env:TEMPEST_CONFIG:} and {env:TEMPEST_CONFIG_DIR:} used to…

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Tomcat 7 setenv.sh is not found
I downloaded and extracted the apache-tomcat-7.0. As per the instructions in the RUNNING.txt (%CATALINA_BASE%/RUNNING.txt), it should set the JRE_HOME in the "setenv.sh" file.
Where is this file located ? Documentation said, it would be in…

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How to set the environment variable in tox?
I have tox 2.9.1
$ tox --version
2.9.1 imported from /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tox/__init__.pyc
registered plugins:
tox-pyenv-1.1.0 at /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/tox_pyenv.pyc
File structure and content are as below
$ tree…

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How to use setenv() to export a variable in c++?
I need to export several variables such that they look like the following in the command line
export ROS_HOSTNAME=xxx
How do I use setenv() in c++ to achieve that?
Thanks.

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Conditional SetEnv in .htaccess?
Is it possible to set a SetEnv variable in an .htaccess file differently depending on hostname?
For example, I need my .htaccess file to have the following value:
SetEnv PYRO_ENV production
On production boxes, and...
SetEnv PYRO_ENV stage
On…

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C++: Setenv(). Undefined identifier in Visual Studio
Look my code seems to be correct, according to all the documentation I can find online. My IDE is MS Visual Studio Xpress 4 Windows Desktop 2012, and it's compiler is throwing up the error:
Error 1 error C3861: 'setenv': identifier not found…

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setenv equivalent on mac?
I want to set an environment variable using setenv:
setenv NODE_ENV localhost
But setenv gives me an error saying the command is not found. Does anyone know how to perform the MAC OSX equivalent of setenv? Thanks!

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mod_rewrite rule and setenv
Is there anyway to use the value set in a SetEnv on the RewriteRule statement?
Example:
SetEnv MY_SCRIPT myScript.php
rewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ %{MY_SCRIPT} [L]

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Zend SetEnv in .htaccess not working
I installed Zend on my ubuntu homeserver. In my .htaccess file i have the following code:
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV development
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-s
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}…

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Apache SetEnv prepends REDIRECT_ . What gives?
For an application based on Zend Framework I use apaches SetEnv in .htaccess. I use this on test, staging and production servers like so:
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENVIRONMENT production
On the staging server I couldn't read this env var in PHP. However…

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Why change in LD_LIBRARY_PATH at Runtime dosen't Reflect on the Executable once the Executable gets loaded
I'm trying to change the LD_LIBRARY_PATH from my C++ program. I'm able to get its value using getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH") and set its value using setenv() (and I know that this is working, because when I call getenv("LD_LIBRARY_PATH") again, I get the…

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Setting environment variable using .htaccess
I'm trying to set up an apache environment variable using .htaccess file in the following way:
SetEnv SERVER_KEY "qwerty"
After that i gracefully restart my apache web server:
apachectl graceful
Then i create a file called version.php in…

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How secure is storing DB variables with SetEnv or in php.ini?
I don't like storing sitewide crypto keys and DB access information under document_root, so I was using Apache's SetEnv and php.ini files under conf.d to separate these from the codebase. The big question is, which one is better? Inside environment…

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