Nginx variables similar to SetEnv in Apache?

apache perl nginx catalyst
MIguelele picture MIguelele · Nov 11, 2011 · Viewed 86.2k times · Source

I use SetEnv in Apache to set some variables in virtualhosts that I recover in PHP using $_SERVER[the_variable].

Now I am switching to Perl Catalyst and Nginx, but it seems that the "env" directive in Nginx is not the same. It does not work. How can it be accomplished?

Here is the background picture, just in case someone can suggest a better approach or my previous system does not work with Nginx.

  • I use the same app for many domains. All data comes from different databases with the same structure.
  • The database name is hardcoded to the virtual host, in that environmental variable.
  • As I know the database name, all the queries go to its appropriate database, from the very first query.
  • I can have multiple domains using the same database, just including the same variable into the directives.

Answer

TREx picture TREx · Nov 30, 2011 
location / {
...
   fastcgi_param   APPLICATION_ENV  production;
   fastcgi_param   APPLICATION_CONFIG user;
...
}

but it's for PHP-CGI

Related questions

How do I configure Apache 2 to run Perl CGI scripts?

I would like to configure Apache 2 running on Kubuntu to execute Perl CGI scripts. I've tried some steps that I came across by googling, but nothing seems to work. What is the right way of achieving this?

Read More
Perl Apache : Perl script displayed as plain text

While configuring with apache and perl cgi scripts, don't know why index.cgi/index.pl are displayed as plain text instead of executing them. When I put http://localhost in browser it displays below code, instead of executing it. List …

Read More
What causes "suexec policy violation" when Perl is called via server side include?

I'm working on a Perl script which is called from a server side include on an Apache 2 server. The script is displaying the generic "Internal Server Error" page rather than showing me the actual error. When I check the Apache …

Read More