On 12 November 2011 07:19, andres <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Graham, > Thanks for your quick response. We're just trying to share > configuration variables across multiple projects/coding languages and > environment variables are a convenient way to do that. Sounds like > adding variables to os.environ is the best option. > Is it technically feasible for mod_wsgi to source the daemon process > user's environment on startup? Why wouldn't that behavior be > desirable?
No it isn't possible because there is no exec of any program, the mod_wsgi daemon processes are a straight fork of Apache parent process. Thus there is no shell involved where sourcing of environment variables could be done. Graham > On Nov 10, 11:44 pm, Graham Dumpleton <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On 11 November 2011 15:03, andres <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi All, >> >> > Is there a way to source a user's environment on startup? I'm running >> > mod_wsgi in daemon mode and I'd like to access the user's environment >> > variables from within the process. >> >> No. >> >> You inherit the user environment of root effectively and would not be >> wise to be sourcing a users environment when starting Apache as root. >> >> What user environment variables do you need to have? >> >> One would try and avoid relying on environment variables in web applications. >> >> If absolutely necessary, one can set them from the WSGI script file >> explicitly by updating os.environ. >> >> Graham > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "modwsgi" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "modwsgi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi?hl=en.
