Apache 2.4 SetEnv not working

Question

I'm trying to set a local environment variable to test my PHP app on a windows machine. I added SetEnv API_HOST /foo/bin in the file C:\\Apache24\\conf\\httpd.conf and restarted the server by executing httpd -k restart at the command line.

In my app I check the variable $_SERVER['API_HOST'] and I always get null and it isn't null in the development server since the environment variable is set there.

I also tried to create confs files, set the env variable and include the files in the httpd.conf, but also doesn't work.

I was expecting this to be straight forward, but it seems something is missing. Any idea why it isn't working?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Sorry, forgot to answer earlier. It started working with the following in the httpd.conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  DocumentRoot "path/to/project-root"
  ServerName localhost
  SetEnv API_HOST /foo/bin
</VirtualHost>

And restart the apache server by going to the path C:\\Apache24\\bin on the cmd and execute httpd -k stop and httpd -k start . I tried httpd -k restart several times before and didn't work, don't know why.

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