How Can I Have A Conditional .htaccess Block?

Question

This is an Apache question you\'ve probably come across before. I want to have one source package that I can deploy to my workstation, my staging server, and my production s

Answer 1

Instead of using SetEnv, use the environment variable setting capabilities of RewriteRule itself:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =foo.com
RewriteRule ^ - [E=VARNAME:foo]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} =bar.com
RewriteRule ^ - [E=VARNAME:bar]

Although I prefer doing this sort of thing by passing flags to the httpd process at startup and looking for them using IfDefine blocks.

SetEnv VARNAME foo



SetEnv VARNAME bar