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Can you help with setting Apache environmental variables?

I'm trying to set some environmental variables using the .htaccess file which I then access from Perl scripts. Everything works fine on my PC, but I can't get the thing to work within my Site5 account....

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How to access SSH?

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Joliver,
thanks for the quick reply.

Actually experimenting further I found that I could set the environment variables using the .htaccess file in the main htdocs directory, but not in the cgi-bin subdirectory. Thus my PHP scripts are able to access the environmental variables but not my Perl scripts. This is very strange, since as understand it (and I’m no Apache expert), the dictates in .htaccess should be recursive; i.e. they should be picked up by the cgi-bin subdirectory.

Anyway I’ve got round the problem by hard coding the database username and password into the Perl script; thus avoiding the need to reference the environmental variables.

Thanks again.

Joliver,
I placed ticket, received a reply and fixed the problem. For the record :

i) ssh access is now activated automatically for all accounts (a recent change).
ii) to access you need the main account login name and password. I was using some kind of child account created for me by our consultant.

Anyhow problem fixed. Thanks for all the interest.
Radnip

Thanks Jim for the suggestion but its not working for me.
I don’t what the problem is.