Setting path variable for apache user on Amazon Ec2

Question

I've been on this for a good few hours and I'm not getting anywhere.

I can't add /usr/local/bin to the apache users PATH variable. The user doesn't have a .profile , I can't su to the user, I can't export to the PATH from php using exec and adding

SetEnv PATH /usr/local/bin

To either the http.conf or the .htaccess file doesn't make a difference. I can't find the envvars file to change that but I suspect there's some other problem.

I have restarted apache, and indeed my server.

Any help please?

Answer 1

最终遵循 Alfe 在他的回答中建议的内容，除了我添加到/etc/sysconfig/httpd的/etc/init.d/httpd文件（可以在更新时轻松覆盖）之外：

export PATH=${PATH:+$PATH:}/usr/local/bin

Answer 2

Have a look at the /etc/passwd to see which login shell the apache user has (on EC2 Ubuntu instances it should be /bin/sh which is a link to /bin/dash ). Then have a look at the man page of that shell and find out which configuration files are read upon login. (For /bin/dash that would be .login in the user's home directory.) In those you should be able to extend your $PATH as you like.

EDIT:

Since you seem to have no login shell for that user: Have a look at the /etc/init.d/* scripts which start the system services. Apache will be one of them. They are started as root and may change the current user (eg to the apache user). In there you might be able to adjust the PATH as you like it.

Patching those scripts, however, is not considered typical configuration. Updates might overwrite what ever you patch there.