I need to access an environment variable in my php script. It's running on a remote server. I've added them to /etc/environment but I can't access them as the server needs a reboot.
They can be echoed when I run
source /etc/environment
so it's not a problem with the file.
But the php script isn't running as my user so it doesn't have those variables. Since it's a remote server I don't particularly want to reboot it, as I assume this would then pull in the new environment variables I wrote to /etc/environment. I've seen I can use /etc/profile but that won't affect the apache user, which I assume is running the php scripts.
I've tried to run
echo exec('source /env/environment && echo $the_var');
but the variable still doesn't return.
Any ideas please? Thanks in advance
