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Hello,

I'm working on porting some code that's been running on mod_perl 1 for a very long time to mod_perl 2. Mostly things have gone smoothly, but I'm having trouble with environment variables. Sometimes my scripts go off and run other scripts, and expect to be able to set things like $ENV{PATH} for the child processes. However, for some reason under mod_perl 2, my environment variables aren't getting passed to child processes! Quite bizarre.

Here's an example:

#!/usr/bin/perl -T

use strict;
use warnings;

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

$ENV{PATH}="/usr/bin";

print "PARENT: PATH is $ENV{PATH}\n";
print " CHILD: PATH is ",`echo \$PATH`,"\n";
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The proper output seems pretty obvious, right? And that's what it does when I run it from the command-line. But under mod_perl 2, instead I see:

PARENT: PATH is /usr/bin
 CHILD: PATH is /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbi
+n:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
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I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 and its default Perl (5.8.8), Apache (2.2.8), and mod_perl (2.0.3). My Apache configuration looks roughly like this:

<Location /cgi-perl>
    Options +ExecCGI
    PerlSendHeader On
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler ModPerl::Registry
    PerlOptions +SetupEnv
    allow from all
</Location>
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Any suggestions would be appreciated!

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In reply to Environment variables under mod_perl 2 by sgifford

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