Environment variables and PHP

Question

I have an ubuntu server with a handful of custom environment variables set in /etc/environment as per the ubuntu community recommendation

When I use php from the com

Answer 1

Adding on to the answers above, I was running php-fpm7 and nginx in an alpine:3.8 docker container. The problem that I faced was the env variables of USER myuser was not getting copied into the USER root

My entrypoint for docker was

sudo nginx  # Runs nginx as daemon
sudo php-fpm7 -F -O  # Runs php-fpm7 in foreground

The solution for this was

sudo -E nginx
sudo -E php-fpm7 -F -O

-E option of sudo copies all env variables of current user to the root

Of course, your php-fpm.d/www.conf file should have clear_env=no

And FYI, if you're using a daemon service like supervisord they have their own settings to copy the env. For example, supervisord has setting called copy_env=True