# One more try - ENV and FastCGI **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 28, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-more-try-env-and-fastcgi/59028 "2006-04-28T00:43:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfmcfar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-more-try-env-and-fastcgi/59028/1 "2006-04-28T00:43:12Z")
Hi, I’m desperate, so I thought I’d try one more time in the hopes of getting a different audience. Basically. it boils down to this. Using CGI, the ENV hash is populated and is accessible from a model script. Using FastCGI, the ENV hash is empty. Can anyone explain how I can fix this? Thanks, ## Stan Mcfarland View this message in context: [http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4131042](http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4131042) Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ---
**Author:** ![sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfmcfar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-more-try-env-and-fastcgi/59028/2 "2006-04-28T02:35:32Z")
On Apr 27, 2006, at 3:39 PM, sfmcfar wrote: > I’m desperate, so I thought I’d try one more time in the hopes of > getting a > different audience. Basically. it boils down to this. Using CGI, > the ENV > hash is populated and is accessible from a model script. Using > FastCGI, the > ENV hash is empty. Can anyone explain how I can fix this? Perhaps there’s no ENV when FastCGI is started? I haven’t done any ENV based configuration in Rails, though I used to be a big fan in mod\_perl days. If you’re using Apache, then you specifically need to declare which environment vars to pass via the PassEnv configuration option. – – Tom M. ---
**Author:** ![sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfmcfar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 4:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-more-try-env-and-fastcgi/59028/3 "2006-04-28T04:15:24Z")
Well, FastCGI has a parameter called -initial-env which is suypposed to allow you set the environmental variables of interest, but I can’t seem to make it work. I might need to revisit, though. Thanks for the reminder. ## -stan View this message in context: [http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4133210](http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4133210) Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ---
**Author:** ![sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfmcfar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-more-try-env-and-fastcgi/59028/4 "2006-04-28T14:20:31Z")
sfmcfar wrote: > Well, > > FastCGI has a parameter called -initial-env which is suypposed to allow > you > set the environmental variables of interest, but I can’t seem to make it > work. I might need to revisit, though. Thanks for the reminder. > > ## -stan > > View this message in context: > [http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4133210](http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4133210) > Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). Here’s an entry from a running apache config file setting up my fastcgi (if it helps?) FastCgiServer “C:/WebApps/\_premier/public/dispatch.fcgi” -idle-timeout 120 -processes 2 -initial-env PATH=“C:/PROGR~1/ruby/bin;C:/PROGR~1/MYSQL/MySQLS~1.0/bin;c:/windows/system32;c:/windows;” -initial-env RUBYOPT=rubygems -initial-env RAILS\_ENV=development ---
**Author:** ![sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfmcfar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-more-try-env-and-fastcgi/59028/5 "2006-04-28T16:36:08Z")
And the ENV hash contains the variables you’ve set with initial-env? I can get at these variables through the request.env object, but I need to access them in a model script, and the request object isn’t available to the model. Thanks, -stan – View this message in context: [http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4141212](http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4141212) Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ---
**Author:** ![sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@sfmcfar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sfmcfar)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 4:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/one-more-try-env-and-fastcgi/59028/6 "2006-04-28T16:26:49Z")
And the ENV hash contains the variables you’ve set with initial-env? I can get at these variables through the request.env object, but I need to access them in a model script, and the request object isn’t available to the model. Thanks, -stan – View this message in context: [http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4141220](http://www.nabble.com/one-more-try---ENV-and-FastCGI-t1521255.html#a4141220) Sent from the RubyOnRails Users forum at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com).