Setting Environment Variables in MAMP?

Question

I assume that MAMP environment variables can be set in ~/.bash_profile, but it seems that setting them there does not always take effect right away. For instance, I just set

Answer 1

If you still can't get your environment variables:

you may need to edit your real httpd.conf in

~/Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/

instead of

/Applications/MAMP/conf/apache/

Also you may need to use getenv() instead of $_ENV