Environment variables and PHP - environment-variables

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 command line I can use php's getenv() function to access this variables.
Also, if I run phpinfo() from the command line I see all of my variables in the ENVIRONMENT section.
However, when trying to access the same data inside processes being run by php5-fpm this data is not available. All I can see in the ENVIRONMENT section of phpinfo() is:
USER www-data
HOME /var/www
I know the command line uses this ini:
/etc/php5/cli/php.ini
And fpm uses:
/etc/php5/fpm/php.ini
I've not managed to find any differences between the two that would explain why the ENV variables are not coming through in both.
Also if run:
sudo su www-data
and then echo the environment variables I am expecting they are indeed available to the www-data user.
What do I need to do to get my environment variables into the php processes run by fpm?

Answer 1

It turns out that you have to explicitly set the ENV vars in the php-fpm.conf
Here's an example:
[global]
pid = /var/run/php5-fpm.pid
error_log = /var/log/php5-fpm.log
[www]
user = www-data
group = www-data
listen = /var/run/php5-fpm.sock
pm = dynamic
pm.max_children = 5
pm.start_servers = 2
pm.min_spare_servers = 1
pm.max_spare_servers = 3
chdir = /
env[MY_ENV_VAR_1] = 'value1'
env[MY_ENV_VAR_2] = 'value2'

Answer 2

1. Setting environment variables automatically in php-fpm.conf
clear_env = no
2. Setting environment variables manually in php-fpm.conf
env[MY_ENV_VAR_1] = 'value1'
env[MY_ENV_VAR_2] = 'value2'
! Both methods are described in php-fpm.conf:
Clear environment in FPM workers Prevents arbitrary environment
variables from reaching FPM worker processes by clearing the
environment in workers before env vars specified in this pool
configuration are added. Setting to "no" will make all environment
variables available to PHP code via getenv(), $_ENV and $_SERVER.
Default Value: yes
clear_env = no
Pass environment variables like LD_LIBRARY_PATH. All $VARIABLEs are
taken from the current environment. Default Value: clean env
env[HOSTNAME] = $HOSTNAME
env[PATH] = /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
env[TMP] = /tmp
env[TMPDIR] = /tmp
env[TEMP] = /tmp
I found solution in this github discussion .

Answer 3

The problem is when you run the php-fpm. The process not load the environment.
You can load it in the startup script.
My php-fpm is install by apt-get.
So modify the
/etc/init.d/php5-fpm
and add (beware the space between the dot and the slash)
. /etc/profile
and modify the /etc/profile to add
. /home/user/env.sh
In the env.sh. You can export the environment whatever you need.
Then modify
php-fpm.conf
add env[MY_ENV_VAR_1] = 'value1' under the [www] section.
Last. restart the php-fpm. You'll get the environment load by the fpm.

Answer 4

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