Hello

I have searched all over the place, but can't find an explanation for
the following.

I am trying to set different environment variables depending on what
what directory the accessed cgi script is in.

/var/www/cgi-bin/live/report.cgi
/var/www/cgi-bin/test/report.cgi

where report.cgi simply is

print $ENV{'USERSOURCE'}

I thought by adding the following to my httpd.conf file and stopping
and then starting /etc/init.d/httpd the scripts would give me
different outputs.

<Directory "/cgi-bin/live/">
SetEnv USERSOURCE live
</Directory>
<Directory "/cgi-bin/test/">
SetEnv USERSOURCE test
</Directory>

However, I can only get the variable set if I use SetEnv OUTSIDE of
the <Directory> tags (and is therefore global). I have run httpd -t to
check the syntax and all that works. Can anyone tell me why you cannot
set specific environment variables based on the directory directive?

Thanks for your help and attention

Mark

:-)

Turns out it works if instead I use....

<Location "/cgi-bin/live/">
SetEnv USERSOURCE live
</Location >
<Location "/cgi-bin/test/">
SetEnv USERSOURCE test
</Location >

Thanks anyway

:-)

markdibley [at] gmail.com wrote:
> Turns out it works if instead I use....
>
> <Location "/cgi-bin/live/">
> SetEnv USERSOURCE live
> </Location >
> <Location "/cgi-bin/test/">
> SetEnv USERSOURCE test
> </Location >

based on this excerpt from the setenvif directive documentation:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_setenvif.html#seten vif

Since version 2.0.51 Apache will recognize occurrences of $1..$9 within
value and replace them by parenthesized subexpressions of regex.

you could probably avoid the hassle of the pre-arranging every possible
"usersource" into a location stanza, and just use a single line like this to
cover all cases:

SetEnvIf Request_URI "/cgi-bin/(.*?)/" USERSOURCE=$1

hth
--sean

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