Setting Environment Variable for nginx and Rails consumption
- by kolrie
Apache's module mod_env offers a handy way of setting environment variables in configuration files, like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName xyz.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/rails_app/public
PassengerAppRoot /var/www/rails_app
SetEnv MY_VARIABLE contents
</VirtualHost>
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_env.html#setenv
However, in nginx I couldn't find anything that serves the same purpose. What's the alternative here? I thought of setting environment variables in .profile files (I am using Ubuntu 10.04), but that wouldn't have the same "per vHost" isolation I have with Apache, right?
What are the alternatives here?
