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Deb
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 Posted: Wed 19 Nov '14 0:19 Post subject: Apache envvars |
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The default installation of Apache creates envvars with some environment variables for apachectl but I haven't been able to figure out what the following means:
And the following:
| Code: | export LANG=C
export LANG |
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James Blond
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| Posted: Wed 19 Nov '14 14:58 Post subject: |
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The unset HOME deletes the content of $HOME variable which refers to your home directory
The 'LANG' environment variable indicates the language/locale and encoding. The "C" locale is normally the default. |
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Deb
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| Posted: Wed 19 Nov '14 20:32 Post subject: |
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| Can you point me to documentation of these variables? |
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Deb
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| Posted: Thu 20 Nov '14 22:39 Post subject: |
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| I'm running Apache 2.2 under Debian 7 and the default settings are to unset HOME and to set LANG to C and then LANG appears without being set to anything. What do you think is the benefit of this? |
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James Blond
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| Posted: Fri 21 Nov '14 18:36 Post subject: |
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This is mainly a forum for apache on windows...
Well I guess that unsetting the HOME is because the server shall run in its own enviroment and not of the user who has started that script.
You better ask some debian guys why. In the orig apachectl from apache.org that is not in it. (https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.2.x/support/apachectl.in) |
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