[RESOLVED] How do I set _ENV variables?

[sfhazel]

Hello, it's been a while since I last posted on this forum. The site seems to be running smoother than I remember. 🙂

Getting down to business though. I run a local server on my machine to test out code before uploading it to my server. (Standard practice I assume). I'm a designer at heart, developer out of necessity, and server admin hardly. So please forgive me if this is a noob question to ask, but I just have not found anything helpful in my google searching quests.

My host uses this environment variable for my sql database connections:

$_ENV['DATABASE_SERVER']

I'd like to set that variable on my local server to be "localhost". This way I will not need to change my connection string between my test server and my remote server. So my question is, where and how do I set $_ENV['DATABASE_SERVER'] = "localhost" on my local server?

I'm running IIS and have the latest version of PHP installed to C:/PHP

[MarkR]

I'm not even completely sure that you CAN set environment variables via IIS (maybe with some third party extension).

Under Apache of course, you can use the SetEnv directive (which can be set per virtual host, per directory, or by some other section e.g. Location or LocationMatch)

Mark

[Installer]

You'll probably need to add the variable. See this page for how.

[sfhazel]

Installer wrote:

You'll probably need to add the variable. See this page for how.

Thank you so much! That did the trick (Had to restart my computer before it took effect though)