[users@httpd] Apache2 variable was undefined warning message

["Geoghegan, James (CSS)" <Ja...@capita.co.uk>]

Can anyone help with the following?

 

After editing the httpd.conf file of an Apache2 http installation to add
the environment variables:

 

setenv DIRECT_SYSTEM /apps/CapitaDirect/System

setenv DIRECT_TEMPLATE /apps/CapitaDirect/Template

passenv DIRECT_SYSTEM

passenv DIRECT_TEMPLATE

 

 

I then used "/usr/apache2/bin/apachectl start" to start the httpd
server, but got a warning message for each variable:

 

[Wed Jun 07 16:07:20 2006] [warn] PassEnv variable DIRECT_SYSTEM was
undefined

[Wed Jun 07 16:07:20 2006] [warn] PassEnv variable DIRECT_TEMPLATE was
undefined

Syntax OK

 

..and the httpd server did not start. I have found lots of reports of
this using Google, but no-one seems to know the solution. Does anybody
here know how to resolve this?

 

This works ok on earlier versions of Apache http.

 

 

Regards

James Geoghegan


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Re: [users@httpd] Apache2 variable was undefined warning message

[Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>]

On 6/7/06, Geoghegan, James (CSS) <Ja...@capita.co.uk> wrote:

> setenv DIRECT_SYSTEM /apps/CapitaDirect/System
>
> setenv DIRECT_TEMPLATE /apps/CapitaDirect/Template
>
> passenv DIRECT_SYSTEM
>
> passenv DIRECT_TEMPLATE

This doesn't make sense.  Setenv is used to set new variables that
apache will pass to cgi scripts.  Passenv is used to take env
variables that were set in the shell that started apache and pass them
along to cgi scripts.  You would never want to use both for the same
variable.

>
> ..and the httpd server did not start. I have found lots of reports of this
> using Google, but no-one seems to know the solution. Does anybody here know
> how to resolve this?

The fact that the server did not start is possibly unrelated.  The
messages you quoted were only warnings.  Was there anything else in
the error log?

Joshua.

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