Bug#252627: apache: environment cleaning not useful
Package: apache
Version: 1.3.29.0.2-4
Severity: normal
After getting the latest Apache, I found that passing environment
variables to the server from the command line no longer works. This
is the changelog:
- More init scripts cleanup. It shouldn't leak environment information
(Closes: #229653, #230991)
Unfortunately this isn't very useful behaviour. I routinely set
PGHOST to select development database. Now there is no useful way to
pass this from the command line to Apache. (Adding it to
/etc/apache/local.conf using SetEnv doesn't work because mod_env runs
too late).
As another example it makes the PassEnv directive completely useless.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.6
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages apache depends on:
ii apache-common 1.3.29.0.2-4 Support files for all Apache webse
ii debconf 1.4.25 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.21 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-16 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 1.95.6-8 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libmagic1 4.07-2 File type determination library us
ii libpam0g 0.76-21 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii logrotate 3.6.5-2 Log rotation utility
ii mime-support 3.26-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.3-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
-- debconf information:
* apache/enable-suexec: false
* apache/server-name: localhost
* apache/document-root: /var/www
* apache/server-port: 80
* apache/init: true
* apache/server-admin: webmaster@arctor.home.annexia.org
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