PHP does not read variable from .htacces

[Anon]

Hi,

I have a problem which centers around using the POstgreSQL database
under PHP, Linux and Apache.
In a nutshell: environment variables set in the .htaccess file of a
directory are not being used (they are not "known"), and consequently
certain required files are not found.

.htaccess sets the following variables:

SetEnv cudb_env_root "/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cudb/env"
SetEnv cudb_script_root "/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cudb"
SetEnv mod_name "cudb"

which are being referred to in the file index.php:

<?php
require "$cudb_env_root/autoinclude.inc";
require "$cudb_script_root/req/auth_top.inc";
$pal = $dpal;
require "$cudb_script_root/req/auth_bottom.inc";
?>

The variables, however, are not being found, and as a consequence, there
is a complaint that the file autoinclude.inc could not be found.
If I set absolute paths in the files, everything works.

Does anybody have a clue why the environment variables are not being
used? .htaccess was written by an install script, so I assume it should
be correct. I'd be grateful for any bright ideas -- preferably both
posted and mailed.

Many thanks!

Andreas

[toma42]

is your AllowOverride set to all?

The way I do it is

php_value include_path ".:/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cudb/env:/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/cudb"

<?php
require "autoinclude.inc";

[Anon]

These are environmental variables. FWIW, I have not had any experience with them. However, what i believe you need is

http://www.php.net/getenv

getenv -- Get the value of an environment variable

Description

string getenv (string varname)

Returns the value of the environment variable varname, or false on an error.

Hope that helps!

Chris King