Bug#511878: apache2-mpm-prefork: The httpd server runs inside an artificial LANG=C environment
Package: apache2-mpm-prefork
Version: 2.2.9-10+lenny1
Severity: normal
Running Apache with mod_dav and mod_svn gave me the infamous:
"svn: Can't convert string from 'UTF-8' to native encoding:"
when trying to access an SVN directory deliberately created with cyrillic
letters in UTF-8 encoding. This made me wonder why, since my $LANG and the
system $LANG (through /etc/environment) is set to de_DE.UTF-8. Even when
running
"/etc/init.d/apache start"
from the interactive console, the LANG value in /proc/<apachemainpid>/environ
was set to C. Neither in the startup scripts nor in the httpd sources I can
find any reference to this, therefore this report comes without patches,
unfortunately. A workaround is adding LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 to
/etc/apache2/envvars, but this should hardly be necessary when looking at the
lenny release goal of running systems which are unicode-enabled by default.
On a side note, the response sent by httpd to the browser is a 403 Forbidden
in this case, which is I think not an appropriate translation of the mod_dav
error above, perhaps 500 would be more suitable. I can file a separate bug
report if there is consensus on that issue.
-- Package-specific info:
List of enabled modules from 'apache2 -M':
actions alias auth_basic authn_file authz_default authz_groupfile
authz_host authz_svn authz_user autoindex cgi dav dav_svn deflate
dir env mime negotiation php5 proxy_http proxy setenvif status
userdir
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apache2-mpm-prefork depends on:
ii apache2.2-common 2.2.9-10+lenny1 Apache HTTP Server common files
ii libapr1 1.2.12-5 The Apache Portable Runtime
Librar
ii libaprutil1 1.2.12+dfsg-8 The Apache Portable Runtime
Utilit
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpcre3 7.6-2.1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular
Expressi
apache2-mpm-prefork recommends no packages.
apache2-mpm-prefork suggests no packages.
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